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Quanta luxuria erat, cui
centiens sestertium egestas fuit ! I nunc et puta
pecuniae modum ad rem pertinere, non animi.
Sestertium centiens aliquis extimuit et, quod alii
voto petunt, veneno fugit ! Illi vero tam pravae
mentis homini ultima potio saluberrima fuit. Tune
venena edebat bibebatque, eum immensis epulis
non delectaretur tantum, sed gloriaretur, eum vitia
sua ostentaret, eum civitatem in luxuriam suam converteret, eum iuventutem ad imitationem sui sollici-
[p. 454]
taret etiam sine malis exemplis per se docilem.
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