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LIBER VII · CAPUT 31

MEN WHO HAVE BEEN REMARKABLE FOR WISDOM

MEN WHO HAVE BEEN REMARKABLE FOR WISDOM. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
MEN WHO HAVE BEEN REMARKABLE FOR WISDOM · EDITORIAL PLATE VII.31 · modern editorial plate
MEN WHO HAVE BEEN REMARKABLE FOR WISDOM. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Reliquis animi bonis praestitere ceteros mortales: sapientia oh id Cati, Corculi apud Romanos cognominati, apud Graecos Socrates, oraculo Apollinis Pythii praelatus cunctis.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Those persons among the Romans, who surpass all others in wisdom, have the surnames of Catus and Corculus given to them. Among the Greeks, Socrates was declared by the oracle of the Pythian Apollo to be superior to all others in wisdom.