# Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.7e.12

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, Book 8, Chapter 7e. Latin.

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Sophocles quoque gloriosum cum rerum natura certamen habuit, tam benigne mirifica illi opera sua exhibendo quam illa operibus eius tempora liberaliter sumministrando: prope enim centesimum annum attigit, sub ipsum transitum ad mortem Oedipode e)pi\ *kolwnw=| scripto, qua sola fabula omnium eiusdem studi poetarum praeripere gloriam potuit. idque ignotum esse posteris filius Sophoclis Iophon noluit, sepulcro patris quae retuli insculpendo.

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