Non satis est quod nos mergit1 furiosa iuventus
transversosque rapit fama sepulta probris?
En2 etiamfamuli cognataque faece caterva3
inter conrasas luxuriantur opes.4
Vilis servus habet regni bona, cellaque capti
deridet Vestam Romuleamque casam.
Idcirco virtus medio iacet obruta caeno,
nequitiae classes candida vela ferunt.
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Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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