# Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.9e.3

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, Book 8, Chapter 9e. Latin.

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Quantum eloquentia ualuisse Hegesian Cyrenaicum philosophum arbitramur? qui sic mala uitae repraesentabat, ut eorum miseranda imagine audientium pectoribus inserta multis uoluntariae mortis oppetendae cupiditatem ingeneraret: ideoque a rege Ptolomaeo ulterius hac de re disserere prohibitus est.

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Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, ed. Karl Friedrich Kempf. 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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