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The Satyricon
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CHAPTER THE FORTY-THIRD
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He was becoming very tiresome, and Phileros cried out, "Let's think about the living! He has what was coming to him, he lived respectably, and respectably he died.

What's he got to kick about'?
He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time.

And he grew richer and richer, of course: just like a honeycomb.

I expect that he left all of a hundred thousand, by Hercules, I do! All in cold cash, too; but I've eaten dog's tongue and must speak the truth: he was foul-mouthed, had a ready tongue, he was a trouble maker and no man.

Now his brother was a good fellow, a friend to his friend, free-handed, and he kept a liberal table.


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