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Is it not enough that mad youth engulfs us, and our
good name is sunk in reproach and sweeps us astray? Behold! even bondmen and the
rabble that is kindred to the mire wanton amid our gathered hoards! The low slave
enjoys the treasure of a kingdom, and the thrall's room shames Vesta and the cottage
of Romulus. So goodness lies obscured in the deep mud, and the fleet of the
unrighteous carries snowy sails.
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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