Linque tuas sedes alienaque litora quaere,
O1 iuvenis: maior rerum tibi nascitur ordo.
Ne succumbe malis: te noverit ultimus Hister,
te Boreas gelidus securaque regna Canopi,
quique renascentem Phoebum cernuntque cadentem:
maior in externas fit qui2 descendit harenas.
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Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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