# Excerpta Controversiae 3.16

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-elder/excerpta-controversiae/3.16

Memini me intrare scolam eius cum recitaturus esset in Milonem; CESTIVS ex consuetudine sua miratus dicebat: si Threx essem, Fusius essem; si pantomimus essem, Bathyllus essem, si equus, Melissio. Non continui bilem et exclamaui: si cloaca esses, maxima esses. Risus omnium ingens; scolastici intueri me, quis essem qui tam crassas ceruices haberem. Cestius Ciceroni responsurus mihi quod responderet non inuenit, sed negauit se exsecuturum, nisi exissem de domo.

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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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