Namque si non ita fecissent, non potuissemus scire, quae res in Troia fuissent gestae, nec quid Thales, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Xenophanes reliquique physici sensissent de rerum natura, quasque Socrates, Platon, Aristoteles, Zenon, Epicurus aliique philosophi hominibus agendae vitae terminationes finissent, seu Croesus, Alexander, Darius ceterique reges quas res aut quibus rationibus gessissent, fuissent notae, nisi maiores praeceptorum conparationibus omnium memoriae ad posteritatem commentariis extulissent.
If they had not done so, we could not have known the history of Troy, nor the natural philosophy of Thales, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, and the rest; nor should we have been acquainted with the precepts of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, and other philosophers for the conduct of human life, nor with the actions and policy of Croesus, Alexander, Darius, and other monarchs, unless our predecessors in their records and collections of opinions had published these matters to posterity and the memory of the world. .
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