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My own.
Think you, because I do not shut myself up to meditate, and drink water, and eat herbs, that I cannot write verses? By Apollo, if I did not spend my days in politics, and my nights in revelry, I should have made Sophocles tremble.
But now I never go beyond a little song like this, and never invoke any Muse but Chariclea.
But come, Speusippus, sing.
You are a professed poet.
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