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[14] ad haec ipse Paeonium conspicatus nutu coepit consulere nutantem, placeretne condicio, sed cum ille confusus reticuisset princepsque consuleret erubescenti, ait: ‘ annuo postulatis, si hoc ipsum e vestigio versibus petas.’ ‘fiat,’ inquam; retrorsumque conversus, tamquam aquam manibus poscerem, tantumque remoratus, quantum stibadii circulum celerantia ministeria percurrunt, cubitum toro reddidi, et imperator: ‘spoponderas te licentiam scribendae satirae versibus subitis postulaturum.’ et ego: ‘scribere me satiram qui culpat, maxime princeps, hanc rogo decernas aut probet aut timeat.’ [p. 410]
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