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 The labours of Hercules famous, if not as facts also, (yet) by way of teaching

3. Indeed for speech and action alike the reputation of Porcius Cato stands far the highest of all Nature the mother of invention: in the equipment of ships God (supplied) the wings of a bird, for man to imitate them by having an eye on nature; the oar therefore is copied from nature

So the acute Cato, worthy of being honoured with statues in every city, gives the Agrigentines ploughs. He shed light on the earliest history of man and the races of the Italian name and the origins of the Italian cities and the childhood of the first inhabitants This Xenophon served campaigns as a volunteer under Cyrus  All the leisure left to him from his campaigns he devoted to hunting

4. The Empire of the Roman People was advanced beyond the hostile rivers by the Emperor Trajan   To the lover silence is free and carries no blame. For all other mortals tell present-day lies, but the lies of writers deserve a reprobation as everlasting as their memory 201