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Sylla esteem'd the dilligence even of a bad pact worthy of some reward. For when he had offered him an [[deletion]] poem [[/deletion]] [[addition]] epigram; [[/addition]] he commanded that a reward should be ^ [[addition]] [[underline]] named lately [[/underline]] [[/addition]] given him, but upon that condition that he should never write again. Julius Caesar made the professors of the liberal arts ^ [[addition]] use of the city [[/addition]] & those ^ [[addition]] also [[/addition]] who practised physics A Rome that they might the more willingly settle there & that others likewise might be desirous of coming there & in this he did very right because we generally choose to employ our labour there, where it will bring, us in the greatest return of profit & honour. But if you take away the rewards of our studies we shall neglect & desert them.
