Adeo te tragoediae istae non satiant, inquit Aper, quo minus omissis orationum et causarum studiis omne tempus modo circa Medeam, ecce nunc circa Thyestem consumas? cum te tot amicorum causae, tot coloniarum et municipiorum clientelae in forum vocent, quibus vix suffeceris, etiam si non novum tibi ipse negotium importasses, Domitium et Catonem, id est nostras quoque historias et Romana nomina, Graeculorum fabulis adgregare.
So then, said Aper, you have not had enough of those tragedies of yours? Otherwise you would not turn your back on your profession of speaker and pleader, and spend your whole time on plays. The other day it was Medea, and now it is Thyestes; and all the while you are being summoned to the forum by the long list of your friends cases, and the equally long list of colonies and country towns for which you ought to act. Why, you could hardly meet all those calls even if you had not so gratuitously shouldered this new occupation of lumping in with Greekling legends a Domitius and a Cato, that is to say, stories from our own annals too, with Roman names.
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