# Excerpta Controversiae 3.12

Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae, Book 3, Chaper pr. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-elder/excerpta-controversiae/3.12

Ego tamen et propriam causam uideor posse reddere: adsueui non auditorem spectare sed iudicem; adsueui non mihi respondere sed aduersario; non minus deuito superuacua dicere quam contraria. In scolastica quid non superuacuum est, cum ipsa superuacua sit? Indicabo tibi affectum meum: cum in foro dico, aliquid ago; cum declamo, id quod bellissime CENSORINVS aiebat de his qui honores in municipiis ambitiose peterent: uideor mihi in somniis laborare. Deinde res ipsa diuersa est:

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Seneca the Elder, Excerpta 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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