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“You will see a town that resembles the fields in time of pestilence.” In tracing this savage caricature, Petronius had in mind not Crotona alone; he refers to conditions in the capital of the empire
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“You will see a town that resembles the fields in time of pestilence.” In tracing this savage caricature, Petronius had in mind not Crotona alone; he refers to conditions in the capital of the empire
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