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Updated: September 25, 2024
Quae singula cum ad horam pascant vana delectatione sensus corporeos, miseriam tamen inserunt piae menti, quod tot et tanti homines, neglecta prorsus animi salute, his diabolicis operationibus se dederunt in toto. Nam certo non ita sine daemonum consolatione et familiaritate praemissa confingi dicerem.
It is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction not to say, suggestion; a circumstance which was long remembered, and was afterwards noticed by the Christian poet Prudentius: "Idque Deum sortes et Apollinis antra dederunt Consilium: nunquam melius nam caedere taedas Responsum est, quam cum praegnans nova nupta jugatur."
This, however, he lost by the triumviral proscriptions, excepting a poor remnant of his estate near Pedum which, small as it was, seems to have sufficed for his moderate wants. At a later period Horace, writing to him in retirement, speaks as though he were possessed of considerable wealth "Di tibi divitias dederunt artemque fruendi."
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