Crates, inquam, si quid credis, Aemiliane, vir domi inter Thebanos proceres dives et nobilis amore huius habitus, quem mihi obiectas, rem familiarem largam et uberem populo donavit, multis servis a sese remotis solitatem delegit, arbores plurimas et frugiferas prae uno baculo sprevit, villas ornatissimas una perula mutavit, quam postea comperta utilitate etiam carmine laudavit flexis ad hoc Homericis versibus, quibus ille Cretam insulam nobilitat.
Crates, I repeat, if you can believe it, Aemilianus, a man rich and famous among the nobles of his native Thebes, so loved this appearance that you fault me for that he presented the people with his large and prosperous estate, renounced his many slaves, chose solitude, threw over his many fruitful orchards for a single stick, and exchanged his well-furnished country houses for a single sack. After discovering how useful the sack was, he even praised it in a poem, adapting for the purpose the lines in which Homer exalts Crete.
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