Naufragus eiecta nudus rate quaerit eodem
percussum telo, cui sua fata fleat.1
Grandine qui segetes et totum perdidit annum,
in simili deflet tristia fata sinu.
Funera conciliant miseros, orbique parentes
coniungunt gemitus et facit hora pares.
Nos quoque confusis feriemus sidera verbis;
fama est coniunctas2 fortius ire preces.
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Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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