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Decēns

postquam Fēlīx fābulam nārrāvit, Caecilius et hospitēs plausērunt.
tum omnēs tacēbant et aliam fābulam exspectābant. subitō clāmōrem
audīvērunt. omnēs ad ātrium festīnāvērunt, ubi Clēmēns stābat.

Caecilius:hercle! quid est? cūr tū clāmōrem facis?
Clēmēns:5  Decēns, Decēns ...
Caecilius:quid est?
Clēmēns:Decēns est mortuus.
omnēs:quid? mortuus? ēheu!
(duo servī intrant.)
Caecilius:10  quid dīcis?
servus prīmus:dominus meus ad vīllam tuam veniēbat;
dominus gladiātōrem prope amphitheātrum
cōnspexit.
servus secundus:gladiātor dominum terruit, quod
15  gladium ingentem vibrābat. tum gladiātor
clāmāvit, 'tū mē nōn terrēs, leō, tū mē nōn
terrēs! leōnēs amīcum meum in arēnā
necāvērunt, sed tū mē nōn terrēs!'
servus prīmus:Decēns valdē timēbat. 'tū es īnsānus', inquit
20  dominus. 'ego nōn sum leō. sum homō.
servus secundus:gladiātor tamen dominum ferōciter petīvit et
eum ad amphitheātrum trāxit. dominus
perterritus clāmāvit.
Clēmēns clāmōrem audīvit. Clēmēns,
25  quod fortis erat, amphitheātrum intrāvit.
Decentem in arēnā cōnspexit. dominus meus
erat mortuus.
Caecilius:ego rem intellegō! gladiātor erat Pugnāx.
Pugnāx erat gladiātor nōtissimus. Pugnāx
30  ōlim in arēnā pugnābat, et leō Pugnācem
necāvit. Pugnāx nōn vīvit; Pugnāx est umbra.
umbra Decentem necāvit.

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