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89 P.L.M.
Non est forma satis nec quae vult bella videri 1
debet vulgari more placere sibi.
Dicta, sales, lusus, sermonis gratia, risus
vincunt naturae candidioris opus.
Condit enim formam quicquid consumitur artis,
et nisi velle 2 subest, gratia nuda perit.

phi0972.phi001p. Petronius. Michael Heseltine (Editor). London. 1913.

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Notes on the current edition

Poems

1. The first couplet is to be found in Fulgentius, Myth. 1, 12, P. 44.
2. velle subest probably corrupt: sal suberit Baehrens.