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"Nec quicquam nudis vitalibus obstat Iam, praeter stantes in summis ossibus hastas." This is grotesque enough; the banquet of birds and beasts who feed on the skin of Pharsalia is even worse. The details are too loathsome to quote.
Fragments of Petronius had been printed by Bernardinus de Vitalibus at Venice in 1499, and by Jacobus Thanner at Leipsig in 1508; but in the year 1632, Petrus Petitus, or as he styled himself, Marinus Statilius, a literary Dalmatian, discovered at Traw a MS. containing a much more considerable fragment, which was afterwards published at Padua and Amsterdam, and ultimately purchased at Rome for the library of the King of France in the year 1703.
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