Petronius
Fragments
Petronius — in Latin.
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- sacer 2
- civitas 2
- vestis 1
- Vergilis 1
- verbena 1
- traho 1
- sumptus 1
- sui 1
- sic 1
- servus1 1
- sermo 1
- sacrum 1
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Servius ad Vergili Aen. III 57: auri sacra fames sacra id est execrabilis. Tractus est autem sermo ex more Gallorum. Nam Massilienses quotiens pestilentia laborabant, unus se ex pauperibus offerebat alendus anno integro publicis sumptibus et purioribus cibis. Hic postea ornatus verbenis et vestibus sacris circumducebatur per totam civitatem cum exsecrationibus, ut in ipsum reciderent mala totius civitatis, et sic proiciebatur. Hoc autem in Petronio lectum est
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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.