et vere intra Eusebianos lares talium te quaedam moneta susceperat disciplinarum, cuius philosophica incude formatus nunc varias nobis rerum sermonumque rationes ipso etiam qui docuerat probante pandebas, nunc ut Platon discipulus iam prope potior sub Socrate, sic iam tu sub Eusebio nostro inter Aristotelicas categorias artifex dialecticus atticissabas, cum ille adhuc aetatulam nostram mobilem teneram crudam modo castigatoria severitate decoqueret, modo mandatorum salubritate condiret.
And truly you had found in Eusebiuss house a kind of mint of such studies; shaped on its philosophic anvil you used sometimes to expound to us the various principles involved in subjects and discourses in such a way that the very master who had taught you approved; at other times, just as Plato under Socrates was already almost superior to his teacher, so you under our teacher Eusebius already showed yourself a real Athenian, a past master of dialectic, versed in the Aristotelian categories, while Eusebius was still tempering our unstable, feeble, raw immaturity with stern rebuke or seasoning it with wholesome precepts.
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