Quapropter, ut poetae solent hic ibidem varias civitates substituere, ut ille tragicus, qui in theatro dici facit: Liber, qui augusta haec loca Cithaeronis colis, item ille comicus: perparvam partim postulat Plautus loci de vostris magnis atque amoenis moenibus, Athenas quo sine architectis conferat, non secus et mihi liceat nullam longinquam et transmarinam civitatem hic, sed enim ipsius Carthaginis vel curiam vel bibliothecam substituere.
And so, just as poets in this very place often conjure up different cities, for instance that tragic poet who writes these words to be spoken in the theater: Bacchus, that livest in these solemn haunts of Cithaeron, and similarly the famous writer of comedies, Within your great and charming town Plautus asks just a little space without the help of architects to transfer Athens to this place, just so I hope I may conjure up here, not a distant city across the sea, but Carthages own council house or library.
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