praeter aequum ista coniectas, si reare mortalium quempiam, cui tamen sermocinari Latialiter cordi est, non pavere, cum in examen aurium tuarum quippe scriptus adducitur; tuarum, inquam, aurium, quarum peritiae, si me decursorum ad hoc aevi temporum praerogativa non obruat, nec Frontonianae gravitatis, aut ponderis Apuleiani fulmen aequiperem, cui Varrones, vel Atacinus vel Reatinus, Plinii, vel avunculus vel Secundus, compositi in praesentiarum rusticabuntur.
You misconceive the facts if you imagine that there is any man, at least anyone with a real regard for Latin expression, who is not alarmed when he is submitted, and in written form too, to the judgment of your ears'of your ears, I repeat, with whose skill, if the privileged position of the generations before our time did not overawe me, I should not rank even the abundant flow of Frontos impressive utterance and of Apuleiuss weighty words; yes, when compared with you the Varros, he of the Atax and he of Reate and both Plinies, the uncle and Secundus, must needs become rustics for the time being.
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