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Herondas, Mime vi THE CORDAX. VOLUME VII. SIX NOTES BY MARCHENA. TO THE ARMY OF THE RHINE. II. III. IV. V. VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS, Opera Omnia. TRAU FRAGMENT. THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER C…
The arena of his activities is, however, that of Venus and not Mars. Petronius is fond of figurative language, and in several other passages, he has made use of the slang of the arena: (chap. 61 ), “…
“In our neighborhood there are so many Gods that it is easier to meet one of them than it is to find a man.” Quartilla is here smarting under the sting of some former lover’s impotence. Her remark b…
“Quartilla applied a curious eye to a chink, purposely made, watching their childish dalliance with lascivious attention.” Martial, xi, 46, makes mention of the fact that patrons of houses of ill fa…
Philosophic dogmas concerning the brevity and uncertainty of life were ancient even in the time of Herodotus. They have left their mark upon our language in the form of more than one proverb, but in …
“At the corners of the tray we also noted four figures of Marsyas and from their bladders spouted a highly seasoned sauce upon fish which were swimming about as if in a tide-race.” German scholars h…
“Drawing his hunting-knife, he plunged it fiercely into the boar’s side, and some thrushes flew out of the gash.” In the winter of 1895 a dinner was given in a New York studio. This dinner, locally …
All translators have rendered “contus” by “pole,” notwithstanding the fact that the word is used in a very different sense in Priapeia, x, 3: “traiectus conto sic extendere pedali,” and contrary to t…
“You will see a town that resembles the fields in time of pestilence.” In tracing this savage caricature, Petronius had in mind not Crotona alone; he refers to conditions in the capital of the empir…
“They either take in or else they are taken in.” “Captare” may be defined as to get the upper hand of someone; and “captari” means to be the dupe of someone, to be the object of interested flattery;…
