# De Beneficiis 5.19.4

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, Book 5, Chapter 19. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-younger/de-beneficiis/5.19.4

non quaeritur, quo beneficium ab eo, cui datum est, transierit, sed ubi primo collocetur ; a reo tibi ipso et a capite repetitio est." Quid ergo ? Oro te, non dicis : " Filium mihi donasti, et, si hic perisset, victurus non fui " ? Pro eius vita beneficium non debes, cuius vitam tuae praefers ? Etiamnunc, cum filium tuum servavi, ad genua procumbis, dis vota solvis tamquam ipse servatus ; illae voces exeunt tibi :

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Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, ed. John William Basore. 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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