Passage
Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.24.7
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At hercule alienissimi homines in honorem Quadratillae - pudet me dixisse honorem - per adulationis officium in theatrum cursitabant exsultabant plaudebant mirabantur ac deinde singulos gestus dominae cum canticis reddebant; qui nunc exiguissima legata, theatralis operae corollarium, accipient ab herede, qui non spectabat.