Nam citius flammas mortales ore tenebunt
quam secreta tegant. Quicquid dimittis in aula,
effluit et subitis rumoribus oppida pulsat.
Nec satis est vulgasse fidem. Cumulatius exit
proditionis opus famamque onerare laborat.
[p. 350] Sic commissa verens avidus reserare1 minister
fodit humum regisque latentes prodidit aures.
Concepit nam terra sonos calamique loquentes
incinuere2 Midam, qualem narraverat index.
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86 P.L.M.
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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