The beautiful Eunice, to whom he had declared his wish to die calmly, and for whom every word of his was like an utterance of fate, had in her features a perfect calmness, and in her eyes a kind of wonderful radiance, which might have been considered delight.
A gyönyörű Euniké számára Petro­nius minden szava parancs volt, minthogy pedig megmondta neki, hogy derűsen akar meghalni, a leány isteni vonásain nyugalom ült, s szemében különös fény ragyogott, amelyet az öröm csillogásának lehetett tartani.