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no one can find them, despite all he knows how to do,
before he must finish. [see note] He also made
a talking head that would answer anything
that he asked and [would tell] of what would
happen on earth. One day it happened that he asked
how he should handle a business he had
to go to, but it responded in such a way that he did not understand.
For it told him that if he protected his head
he would return safe and sound. So he went on his
way completely assured. But the sun, which
was very hot that day, injured him in the head and burned his
brain. He paid no heed, and was struck by an illness from
which he died. For when he had received the answer from
that head, he did not understand that it was talking about
his own head, rather he thought it meant the head he was
talking to, but he should have taken care of his own head,
which would have been better for him. And when he felt
stricken with illness, he had himself carried outside Rome to be
buried in a castle located near Cecille, a mile from the sea.
His bones are still there, better protected than others.
And when they used to be moved, the sea