Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Contention
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 7.11.1 (tr. J.C. Rolfe):
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One should not vie in abusive language with the basest of men or wrangle with foul words with the shameless and wicked, since you become like them and their exact mate so long as you say things which match and are exactly like what you hear...
cum inquinatissimis hominibus non esse convicio decertandum neque in maledictis adversum inpudentes et inprobos velitandum, quia tantisper similis et compar eorum fias, dum paria et consimilia dicas atque audis...
