"Canis ingens, catena vinctus, in pariete erat pictus superque quadrata littera scriptum 'Cave canem."
— Petronius

January 1, 1970

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Sec. 29, translated by J. J. Pollitt, The Art of Rome, c. 753 BC–337 AD: Sources and Documents (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966) p. 147