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If you want just to tell me, and not to make a whole lesson of it by shooting crowds of words far and wide—you can speak.

— Gnaeus Naevius

Si quidem vis loqui,
non perdocere multa longe promicando oratio est.

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Agrypnuntes; quoted by Nonius, 65, 4

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