Si quis forte in hoc pulcherrimo coetu ex illis invisoribus meis malignus sedet (quoniam, ut in magna civitate, hoc quoque genus invenitur, qui meliores obtrectare malint quam imitari et, quorum similitudinem desperent, eorundem affectent simultatem, scilicet uti, qui suo nomine obscuri sunt, meo innotescant), si qui igitur ex illis lividulis splendidissimo huic auditorio velut quaedam macula se immiscuit, velim paulisper suos oculos per hunc incredibilem consessum circumferat contemplatusque frequentiam tantam, quanta ante me in auditorio philosophi numquam visitata est, reputet cum animo suo,.
If perhaps in this most illustrious assembly some ill-wisher is sitting, one of those who envy me (for this being a large city, people of that type are also found'ones who prefer to criticize their betters rather than to imitate them, and pretend to have a feud with those they despair of resembling, doubtless hoping that, obscure as they are on their own account, they may attract notice on mine), well, if any of that spiteful crowd has penetrated this most distinguished audience like a kind of stain, I would ask him briefly to turn his eyes around this extraordinary assembly, to observe this huge crowd, larger than any ever seen in a philosophers audience before my time, and think carefully how much someone not used to being despised risks the maintenance of his reputation here.
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