Tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house

Tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house;
An accident much common in this city destroyed it.
You collected ten times more. Doesn’t it seem, I pray,
That you set fire to your own house, Tongilianus?

Even though fires used to be actually common in Rome, similar insurance frauds happened as well.

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