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Petronius · 1
PD Allinson or Heseltine translation acceptable.
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Roman excess unmasks itself: status, appetite, and erotic power perform the same desperate theater of mortality and shame.
mortality
wine lives longer than poor little man… a silver skeleton thrown upon the table, its mobile articulation causing it to assume various postures
SATYR-RC-047my mind continually haunted by loneliness and desertion… Why could not the earth have opened and swallowed me
CASAT-RC-093ambition-and-status
You're richer than he is, I suppose, and used to dining better! some vagabond laughing at others
SATYR-RC-068the slave Mithridates was crucified for cursing the genius of our master; ten million sesterces returned as no sound investment could be found
CASAT-RC-064erotic-as-power
miserable creatures stunted in their manhood, a doubtful riddle of a double sex, neither preserving boyhood nor possessing manhood
SATYR-RC-229complacency to the one meant possession of the other… this burning harlot flounced out in a rage
CASAT-RC-0216 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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