# Controversiae 10.2.6

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, Book 10, Chapter 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-elder/controversiae/10.2.6

sed silentium uidetur confessio. narrem uirtutes meas? sed illud quoque mihi nouum accidit, quod uni mihi abdicato eas narrare non prodest. Processi in aciem coram patre: fortiter, inquit, pugna; turpe est adulescenti uinci a sene. Auidus sum gloriae: hoc si uitium est, paternum est. fortis sum: numquid improbas, pater? at iam abdicabis, si dixero: fortissimus sum. dicam tamen audacter:

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Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, ed. Adolf Gottlieb Kiessling. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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