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4463. LANGUAGES, Perfect Knowledge of.—[further continued].

Did you ever know an
instance of one who could write in a foreign
language with the elegance of a native? Cicero
wrote Commentaries of his own Consulship in
Greek; they perished unknown, while his native


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compositions have immortalized him with themselves.—
To Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. vi, 509.
(M. 1815)