quem is ab incepto consilio frustra conatus abstrahere, in iisdem perseverantem precibus interemit, caedique eius suam iunxit, ne eo iacente, per quem omnia dignitatis incrementa adsecutus fuerat, superesset.
Petronius tried in vain to turn him from his purpose, but when he persisted in his entreaties, killed him and to his slaughter joined his own, not wishing to survive the death of the man through whom he had gained every step of promotion.
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