sed plus cavendum est, ne sera propter iam propalati augmenta voluminis in aliquos forsitan incidamus vituperones, quorum fugere linguas cote livoris naturalitus acuminatas ne Demosthenis quidem Ciceronisque sententiae artifices et eloquia fabra potuere, quorum anterior orator Demaden, citerior Antonium toleravere derogatores; qui lividi cum fuerint malitiae clarae, dictionis obscurae, tamen ad notitiam posterorum per odia virtutum decucurrerunt.
But a danger to be particularly heeded is that these supplements to an already published collection may perhaps cause us to fall foul of some fault-finders. Even the masterly thoughts and finished eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero could not escape the tongues of such people, tongues sharpened by nature on the whetstone of jealousy; the first had to suffer the detractions of Demades, the latter of Antonius, and these spiteful persons, though their ill-nature was as clear as their diction was obscure, have nevertheless passed into the cognisance of posterity simply through their hatred of merit
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