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On leaving Caesar, Petronius had himself borne to his house on the Carinae, which, being surrounded on three sides by a garden, and having in front the small Caecilian Forum, escaped the fire luckily. For this cause other Augustians, who had lost their houses and in them vast wealth and many works of art, called Petronius fortunate. For years it had been repeated that he was the firstborn of Fortune, and Caesar's growing friendship in recent times seemed to confirm the correctness of this statement.
But that firstborn of Fortune might meditate now on the fickleness of his mother, or rather on her likeness to Chronos, who devoured his own children.