Word: petronius
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Travelers, in the know, who as a rule keep several years ahead of the Baedecker tourists and Raymond-Whitcomb enthusiasts have found Losinj. Trau (Petronius's Satyricon) Korcula. Hvar and Dubrovnik-Kupari in Jugoslavije as smart as Brioni and Cap Antibes and without, the sourness of the Lido...
...Golumella and Petronius", Professor Rand, Sever...
...Golumella and Petronius", Professor Rand, Sever...
More recently many schools and colleges in the U. S. adopted the honor system. During examination hours, therefore, schoolmasters could do anything they liked. They could titter over Petronius, they could play golf. Life became easy for the masters (from magister [Latin]: master, director, superintendent) during examination hours...
...sure, these passages and the delightful interline included therein might not be missed by students unfamiliar with the 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...