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Incidi in materiam veram sed...

I fell upon true material but very similar to fiction, and appropriate to you very favorable, very profound, and clearly poetic in nature; However I happened to fall upon while a variety of marvelous were brought from here over dinner. Have great faith in the seller: which even if is it with the faith of a poet? However the seller, to whom you could trust that he will write the account well. The colony of Hippo is in Africa near the sea. It lies near the navigable lagoon; it rises from this stream in an agitated manner, because it alternates in turn, just as the tide either pushes back or pushes forward, now it is brought to the sea, now it is returned to the lagoon. Here an entire lifetime is kept for fishing, sailing, and even swimming with eagerness, very greatly the boys disturbed the lagoon with their leisure and play. This carried glory and very profound strength: that triumphant boy, who swimming for a very long time at the same time as the others left behind the shore.