Quantum eloquentia valuisse Hegesian Cyrenaicum philosophum arbitramur? qui sic mala vitae repraesentabat ut eorum miseranda imagine audientium pectoribus inserta multis voluntariae mortis oppetendae cupiditatem ingeneraret: ideoque a rege Ptolomaeo ulterius hac de re disserere prohibitus est.
What power do we imagine was in the eloquence of the Cyrenaic philosopher Hegesias? He made the evils of life so vivid that when their pitiful image was thrust into the hearts of his hearers he generated in many the desire for suicide. And on that account he was forbidden by king Ptolemy to discourse any further on the subject.
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