Word: enclopius
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...original text, but without them and the sundry other amourous moments wherein the chastest of embraces have been substituted for move strictly anatomical descriptions, it is difficult to understand how Petronius acquired so great a reputation for unblushing realism. If the reader is persuaded that the affection of Enclopius and Ascyltos for Giton is a purely platonic one and such as is on more than proper between master and servant, he is missing as tasty a hit of aesthetic yohimbin as there is to be found this side of a celebrated international museum in Paris. And if he is missing...
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