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2.13 De Adulatione (Tosti ed., pp.276-7)

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De Adulatione 1

Adulatio est, ut dicit Augustinus, fallacis vocis seductio.

FONTES

De Adulatione 2

Beda: Nutrix peccati est adulatio, que sicut oleum in flamma sic in pena ardentibus ministrare solet fomenta.

FONS

De Adulatione 3

Ignatius martir: Hii qui laudant potius flagellant.

FONTES

De Adulatione 4

Ieronimus: Nos ad patriam festinantes mortiferos serenarum cantus surdi debemus aure transire.

FONS

De Adulatione 5

Seneca: Quam magnum est non laudari et esse laudabilem, quod similiter fertur dixisse Tulius.

FONTES

De Adulatione 6

Seneca: Difficilimum continentie opus est et cetera.

FONS

De Adulatione 7

Ieronimus: Non ideo te bonum extimes, si bonus prediceris. Nemo magis scire potest quis sis quam tu, qui conscius tibi es.

FONS

De Adulatione 8

Plinius: Non possumus ob honorem reverendos iudicare, quos ipsis honoribus reputamus indignos.

FONS


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Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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The editor gratefully acknowledges the financial support for this project and related research that has been generously provided by SSHRC through a Standard Research Grant (2005-8), a Connection Grant (2014), and a portion of the Insight Grant for the Digital Auctores Project (2021-26), as well as a number of internal grants (2000-2013) partly funded by WLU operating funds and partly by SSHRC General Research Grants awarded to WLU.