Indica purpureo genuit me litore tellus,[p. 354]
candidus accenso qua redit orbe dies.
Hic ego divinos inter generatus honores
mutavi Latio barbara verba sono.
Iam dimitte tuos, Paean o Delphice, cycnos:
dignior haec vox est, quae tua templa colat.
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Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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