Quae tanta cura conquisita si honestum et gloriosum illis fuit scribere, cur turpe sit nobis experiri, praesertim cum ordinatius et cohibilius eadem Graece et Latine adnitar conscribere et in omnibus aut omissa adquirere aut defecta supplere? Permittite, si opera est, quaedam legi de magicis meis, ut sciat me Aemilianus plura quam putat quaerere et sedulo explorare.
If it was honorable and praiseworthy for them to write on such subjects that they had so laboriously discovered, what is disgraceful in my investigating them, especially since I struggle to expound these same topics more systematically and concisely in Greek and in Latin, either remedying omissions in them all or correcting errors? If it is not inconvenient, permit certain of my works on magic to be read out, so that Aemilianus can learn that I study and go deeply into more topics than he thinks.
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