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502 13 | upon the mystic emblems of Ceres. ~ 503 83 | intimate with him. But now that certai n ill-natured persons have 504 49 | the body of various jui ces, turbid vapours, and dense 505 94 | what wit! what grace and cha rm dwelt in that reply! 506 97 | or completed owing to his chagrin at the loss of the inheritance 507 40 | linked together like a chain in its belly. Apart from 508 47 | fifteen fettered serfs a chain-gang. Did I need such a crowd 509 97 | further consulted certain Chaldean soothsayers as to what profit 510 44 | simply because he has once chanced to have a fit in my presence. 511 70 | Pudentilla, knowing your changeableness and unreliability no less 512 74 | pledged word and suddenly changed his mind; that he tried 513 14 | age: it puts on all the changes brought by the advance of 514 50 | throws into confusion those channels of divinity and paths of 515 40 | Ulyss es to be stayed by a chant as it gushed forth from 516 64 | sepulchre, although your age and characte r have brought you near 517 38 | differences by which it is characterized, in a word -- for I would 518 78 | when you dance in those characters you show such contemptible 519 39 | at Mitylene and Ambracian Charadrus, and I praise Brundisian 520 8 | employed in rubbing them with charcoal from some funeral pyre. 521 54 | handle against any man who is charged with sorcery. Have you written 522 22 | triumphant generals for their chariots drawn by four white horses 523 47 | incredible manner crops had been charmed away from one field to another. 524 46 | audience, and so, in order to check the suspicions of some of 525 75 | sum to the woman are not checked by anyone and can leave 526 73 | revealed to me that it was his cherished design -- with my permission -- 527 55 | wrapped up in a handker chief and entrusted to the care 528 85 | with the bright face of a child, but with wi ckedness such 529 14 | rror, from their earliest childhood to their expiring age: it 530 27 | the empty, ridiculous and childish fictions which my opponents 531 93 | sons, the alienation of her childr en from her affections, 532 30 | of love is an unfeeling chilly creature like a fish, or 533 57 | rather than the fumes of his chimney. ~ 534 50 | somewhat unpleasantly felt by a choking sensation, the herald of 535 38 | malacheia, malakostraka, chondrakantha, ostrakoderma, karcharodonta, 536 85 | from his mother, which he chooses to regard as amatory, and 537 68 | and it was not of her own choosing that she remained a widow 538 71 | averse to marriage, when she chose me -- i t may be in preference 539 15 | without us; according to Ar chytas they issue forth from us 540 95 | Sallust with its economy and Cicero with its wealth of rhetoric. 541 97 | might follow this by produ cing similar letters from you, 542 84 | these letters should be cir culated and, above all, 543 31 | Helen her mixing bowl, nor Circe her cup, nor Venus her girdle, 544 89 | should have made them form a circle. But whereas the gesture 545 9 | glad days, ~whereon the circling seasons bring~the glory 546 64 | t riumphant on the outer circumference of this our universe. Maximus 547 33 | some clumsy and disgusting circumlocution. The other he found impossible 548 50 | head of man, that is its citadel and palace. For it overwhelms 549 30 | therefore, do no more than cite one Latin poet. Those who 550 82 | portion which I have just cited and suppressing all that 551 10 | Phaedrus; ah! Beware! ~Without citing any further examples I will 552 85 | of a child, but with wi ckedness such as might match grey 553 85 | such lofty character as Cla udius Maximus, a letter 554 21 | ike the body, goes lightly clad when in good health; weakness 555 32 | fish-hooks. Nay, you will class in the same categ ory of 556 35 | smooth pebbles, crabs' claws, sea-urchins' h usks, the 557 6 | thy call,~a powder rare to cleans thy teeth withal.~This delicate 558 8 | useful and agreeable should cleanse his mouth as a prelude to 559 7 | these views of mine on the cleansing of the teeth as a matter 560 1 | have the opportunity of clearing philosophy of the aspersions 561 49 | showing with the utmost clearness the divine purpose that 562 49 | to pass when one of these clements assumes undue proportions 563 34 | think it a particularly clever invention on your part to 564 97 | suit the debires of their client. ~But Rufinus gaped for 565 24 | them, the moistness of the climate, the mildness of the winds, 566 39 | lines and will recite them:~Clipea's sea-weasels are of all 567 22 | four white horses and their cloa ks embroidered with palmleaves. 568 44 | and is a barbarian and a clodhopper. This is indeed a handsome 569 10 | Caius Catullus for calling Clodia Lesbia, Ticidas for substitu 570 16 | your fields and their dull clods, had studied the mathematician' 571 9 | such apt conjectures, such close-reasoned argument? `Apuleius has 572 59 | damn the brute with his close-shaven cheeks and his disgusting 573 33 | themselves -- when they closed their false accusation by 574 50 | grow dull with a sudden cloud of stupefaction and they 575 81 | history, would seem mere clowns and pantaloons, were they 576 78 | of Philomela or Medea or Clytemnestra? Why, when you dance in 577 100| that his brother left you co-heir with himself, who hastened 578 49 | he simple elements, have coalesced in such a manner as to have 579 87 | by flattery so absurd and coarse? They themselves admit that 580 9 | amatory; but so vilely and coarsely did they read them as to 581 35 | though they were serious and cogent, while I laughed at their 582 42 | Cato the philosopher. This coi n Cato acknowledged he had 583 13 | my accusers in their own coin. Your kindness emboldens 584 75 | we have this well known collusion of husband and wife: whoever 585 37 | ess tragedy, his Oedipus Coloneus, on which he happened to 586 16 | the cause of the prismatic colours of the rainbow, or of the 587 4 | that I never so much as comb or part it. I think this 588 88 | the line so well known in comedy ~that in the furrow children 589 63 | cheerful is the god's face, how comel y the down that creeps on 590 4 | philosophers that t hey were comely of countenance and added 591 19 | quietly and in moderate comfort, concealing their actual 592 19 | like tunics, should be comfortable, not long. For even a Fortune, 593 30 | Homer and Orpheus, from the comic and tragic poets and from 594 93 | them good hopes of one day coming into the rest of the property. 595 50 | Great sickness ' and the `Comitial sickness', but al so the ` 596 3 | repetition of a sin once comm itted, so men of depraved 597 12 | base and vulgar passion and commands not only the hearts of men, 598 95 | a close. For what ampler commendation, what purer testimony could 599 12 | of soul. Or, if e ver she commends beautiful bodies to their 600 52 | unconsciously; but you, wretch, commit your crimes with full knowledge 601 103| older than you.' Nothing commoner. `You married for money.' 602 45 | disease? F or its scent is commonly used as a test of the soundness 603 4 | has nature given me but a commonplace appearance, but continued 604 26 | a magician as one who by communion of speech with the immortal 605 24 | father's position in the community, and, as I hope, am in no 606 52 | whithersoever it lead you: and yet compare your frenzy with that of 607 9 | lascivious in all my verses compared with that one line? I will 608 95 | sooner be Avitus, if he compares him with himself impartially 609 14 | ready to hand within the compass of a small mirror, instead 610 54 | concerning which your ignorance compels you to inquire. ~If this 611 66 | that my wife's virtues are compensation for any number of disadvantages, 612 4 | freshness of life, destroyed my complexion and impaired my vigour. 613 99 | did not desist till she complied. ~I regret that I should 614 22 | therefore regarded it as a compliment when to insult me you asserted 615 100| nothing save some trifling complimentary legacy inserted to avoid 616 49 | in the vitiation of those components of the body which, though 617 95 | Whatever speech Avitus composes will be found so absolutely 618 12 | you are capable of ever comprehending such high matters, the sage 619 87 | altogether too refined for his comprehension, found it easier to read 620 50 | the heat of the air thus compressed within the body causes a 621 66 | citizens. This privilege was conceded by antiquity to young men 622 54 | discover something that might conceivably seem to be of a magical 623 45 | young boy is absent: you concentrate your attack on him. What 624 67 | accusations, namely, that which concerns the dowry. It is into this 625 93 | the property. All these concessions I extorted from Pude ntilla 626 36 | and Latin and in a more concise and systematic manner, and 627 10 | further examples I will conclude by quoting a line addressed 628 88 | Oea was to avoid a fresh concourse of citizens demanding largesse. 629 49 | each of these. Thirdly, the concretion in the body of various jui 630 63 | present? Do you hear the condemnation of your lie? Are you not 631 92 | of a large dowry and easy conditions invited a young man, who, 632 40 | secret of my researches, but conducted them openly before all the 633 78 | according to my accusers, she confessed th at my magical practices 634 91 | it is not tantamount to confessing a crime to have one's brain 635 87 | sent to Pudentilla by some confidential servant? Why, again, should 636 31 | into the sea, and there confine them in the entrails of 637 52 | sane because you are not confined within doors, but f ollow 638 52 | between you, save that Thallus confines his frenzy to himself, while 639 62 | Moreover, it receives exact confirmation from the answers given to 640 42 | miracle in the case of boys is confirmed not only by vulgar opinion 641 99 | Look, Maximus, see how confused he is at hearing this, see 642 50 | overwhelms and throws into confusion those channels of divinity 643 27 | and the `good' of Plato. I congratulate myself therefore on being 644 101| Pudentilla. The ho nourable Coninus Celer, the state treasurer 645 99 | avarice led them falsely to conjecture that the whole inheritance 646 9 | for suspicion, such apt conjectures, such close-reasoned argument? ` 647 10 | another poem by Plato dealing conjointly with the boys Alexis and 648 47 | mysterious and yet something connected with magic? You must admit 649 60 | misconduct he knowingly connives, would be sure to recover 650 99 | to grant me this boon, to conquer her wicked son by kindness, 651 66 | African friend here , but the conqueror of Africa and Numantia, 652 58 | why did so suspicious and conscientious a slave allow Quintianus 653 3 | of their crimes, they are conscious enough that such charges 654 1 | some safe refuge from the consequences o f his rashness. ~ 655 97 | embraces although she is considerably his elder and but a brief 656 73 | that boy there -- to my consideration. I gave them some help in 657 73 | if I were moved by these considerations and insisted on reserving 658 96 | accusing me? Pontianus himself considered himself in my de bt for 659 22 | that my whole household consisted of a wallet and a staff. 660 84 | it just, Rufinus, was it consistent, I will not say with filial 661 7 | most frequently, openly and conspicuously by man, whether to kiss 662 60 | had formed a league and conspiracy against me; and I saw from 663 49 | than mortal eloquence the constitution of the whole universe. After 664 2 | decision of the distinguished consulars, his assessors, had declared 665 88 | offered not only wives but consulships and dictatorships in the 666 42 | hundred denarii, came to consult Nigidius; the latter by 667 97 | father-in-law. He h ad further consulted certain Chaldean soothsayers 668 9 | spite~though fire on fire consume me quite,~the flames ye 669 42 | indicate to him where a pot containing a certain portion of the 670 22 | slaves for solitude, so contemned the countless trees of his 671 15 | of his own likeness, he contemplates also the causes which produce 672 15 | always concerned with the contemplation of his own likeness, he 673 78 | characters you show such contemptible timidity, you are so frig 674 99 | step-father, mind you -- contended for my wicked step-son with 675 80 | Tell me now, what is your contention: was she mad or sane when 676 103| at all points, if all my contentions are true, I can await your 677 52 | distort the truth; Thallus contracts his hands convulsively, 678 41 | ought. ~See, too, how they contradict themselves. They say that 679 50 | these causes that which contributes most to epilepsy, the disease 680 42 | from a certain lackey as a contribution to the treasury of Apollo. ~ 681 43 | miracles of magicians are controlled by them. Moreover it is 682 20 | even engage with you in controversy over the word poverty, urging 683 2 | name to the indictment, he conveniently forgot Pontianus, his own 684 7 | kiss a friend, to conduct a conversation, to speak in public, or 685 73 | long and how frequently we conversed on the subject, with how 686 31 | which his influence had converted into a second Greece, he 687 16 | original dimensions, whereas in convex and spherical mirrors everything 688 62 | that does not absolutely convict you of obvious falsehood? 689 28 | given cause or occasion for conviction of any evil practice. I 690 14 | motion, which is the most convinc ing element in a likeness: 691 61 | sequence of events in the most convincing and truthful manner. He 692 31 | sweep as it were by some convulsion of nature all the powers 693 41 | no crime in a butcher or cook? `You dissected a fish.' 694 59 | his breath reeking of the cook-shop. He has long since devoured 695 39 | shadow of the sea? Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for 696 35 | cuttlefish, shingle, straws, cordage, not to mention worm-eaten 697 61 | appear in court? Here is Cornelius Saturninus, the artist, 698 66 | even assuming him to be correctly informed when he accu ses 699 86 | when they captured the correspondence of their enemy, Philip of 700 14 | belongs; its age always corresponds to that of those who look 701 85 | boy should have been so corrupted by you as to read aloud 702 50 | other hand, this dangerous corruption be contained within the 703 18 | no man up with pride, she corrupts no man with passions beyond 704 10 | nnames and calls himself Corydon and the boy Alexis. ~But 705 102| you opened the indictment, couched in the name of my step-son? ` 706 18 | her adornment simple; her counsels are beneficent, she puffs 707 90 | temptation should not be counted against them. We have no 708 92 | nothing save his wife and counts harmony with his spouse 709 88 | imposes on newly-married couples. This is the whole r eason, 710 55 | read aloud, since by the courteous expression of your face 711 56 | linen cloth, the purest of coverings for holy things? For wool, 712 102| beauty? Yo u say not! Did he covet her wealth? The evidence 713 10 | Virgilean shepherds and cowherds, who is, in fact, and always 714 22 | purple to the general , the cowl to the priest, the trumpet 715 35 | the making of a will, a cra b for a cancer, seaweed 716 35 | shells, smooth pebbles, crabs' claws, sea-urchins' h usks, 717 25 | spring up among the stubble, crackling sharply, blazing wide and 718 18 | poverty from their very cradles, poverty that fo unded all 719 81 | single instince of Rufinus' craftiness. O miracle of lies! O subtlety 720 14 | truthful representation is that craftsmanly smoothness and productive 721 1 | real ground for accusation cram his indictment with mere 722 75 | God's curse upon him! I crave your pardon for my warmth 723 30 | love is an unfeeling chilly creature like a fish, or inde ed 724 45 | accusers does detract from his credibility. It would have been easier 725 17 | freedom would have been credible: but suppose I had done 726 17 | would have redou nded to my credit, for I know that not only 727 66 | grave. The only hypothesis creditable to him would be that he 728 26 | who exposes a magician, credited with such awful powers, 729 75 | thus came to terms with his creditors. But he had by a most ingenious 730 19 | who holds so austere a creed and has so long endured 731 63 | how comel y the down that creeps on either side his cheeks, 732 22 | he extols the island of Crete. I will quote the first 733 83 | the remaining letters have cried out that they were unjustly 734 63 | skeleton. Do you hear these cries of protest that arise from 735 74 | more worthless, wicked, and crime-stained soul lives upon this earth. 736 41 | You would not regard it as crimin al if I had explored its 737 9 | entwined in soft embrace; ~the crimson of the rose eclipse~with 738 8 | obliged, therefore, if my critic Aemilianus would answer 739 66 | the thought of money ever crossed my mind. My marriage has 740 32 | pirate, whoever acquires a crowbar a burglar, whoever acquires 741 47 | a marriage? Or any other crowded ceremony? Or a seasonable 742 22 | Antisthenes they were what the crown is to the king, the cloak 743 18 | bestower of all glory, crowned with all honour among all 744 17 | famous beyond all men for the crowns of victory that he had won, 745 80 | follows. We have come to the crucial point. So far, Maximus, 746 38 | to what I say. You will cry out at me saying that I 747 80 | out the letter which gives crying witness to a very different 748 84 | these letters should be cir culated and, above all, published 749 18 | of his own poverty were cultivated at the public expense; if, 750 39 | shouldst buy; Blue fish at Cumae. What! Have I passed by 751 83 | than day. Rufinus, your cunni ng stands revealed, your 752 54 | will be dragged from its cupboard into the light of the law-court 753 51 | the hope that she might be cured, and since it is clear both 754 66 | accuse Marcus Aquilius, Caius Curio to accuse Quintus Metellus. 755 63 | side his cheeks, how the curled hair shows upon his head 756 32 | of Pharos by their use of curved fish-hooks. Nay, you will 757 39 | Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the 758 35 | h usks, the tentacles of cuttlefish, shingle, straws, cordage, 759 73 | studies and a marked intima cy sprang up between us. Meanwhile 760 10 | beneath the pseudonym of Cynthia, and Tibullus for singing 761 24 | that than had the elder Cyrus for being of mixed descent, 762 10 | Fabricius, those heroes of the da ys of old, denies that such 763 63 | project about his brows, how daintily the cloak is drawn about 764 30 | foal at birth ere yet its dam could snatch it. ~But you 765 74 | possible without serious damage to my case to pass by what 766 90 | great Carmendas himself or Damigeron or Moses , or Jannes or 767 59 | searching gaze, lest you should damn the brute with his close-shaven 768 4 | but also in Greek!' What a damning insinuation! Unless I am 769 74 | vices; in youth a stage dancer limp and nerveless enough 770 26 | divine power. Against other dangers we may take adequate precautions. 771 90 | or Jannes or Apollobex or Dardanus himself or any sorcerer 772 86 | letters. ~But you have also dared to submit a letter of your 773 63 | about his shoulders! He who dares call this a skeleton, either 774 58 | from day smoke in being darker? And why did so suspicious 775 52 | against the pavement, you dash yourself against the judgement-seat. 776 52 | your advocates; Thallus dashes himself against the pavement, 777 73 | at the earliest possible date. We could scarcely induce 778 87 | sent for her sons and her daughter-in-law and lived with them for 779 32 | salutary, although they are deadly when given with other substances 780 85 | fullgrown and the wounds he deals are far bitterer, for they 781 103| of philosophy, wh ich is dearer to me than my own safety, 782 85 | heart and outrages your dearest affections. ~Is this the 783 97 | lifetime but actually on his deathbed. I might follow this by 784 59 | glutton fe eling ill after his debauch? I myself saw him yesterday 785 97 | usual fabricated to suit the debires of their client. ~But Rufinus 786 36 | and suffering from senile decay, let him, if he will, acquire 787 81 | together with all the notorious deceivers of history, would seem mere 788 71 | be annoyed at the lady's decis ion, when those who were 789 9 | boyhood's golden hours~mayst deck the flower of life with 790 13 | exploded, so violently did he declaim against the horrid nature 791 4 | with unblushing mendacity declare I have allowed to grow long 792 102| reasonable opportunity for declaring in your favour! At least 793 36 | seen. Although he is in the decline of life and suffering from 794 93 | lands, a large house richly decorated, a great quantity of wheat, 795 15 | greatest attention to the decorousness of his appearance in the 796 14 | that public statues are decreed as a rew ard for merit that 797 70 | wedded Clarus, a boorish and decrepit old man, you would have 798 65 | of war. Whatsoever a man dedicates, let it be of wood and wood 799 54 | you have ma de some votive dedication, or offered sacrifice, or 800 101| speak of him save with the deepest r espect. Ask him, Maximus, 801 100| had given him, who is so deeply and bitterly incensed to 802 58 | should have suffered such defacement of his bedroom for as long 803 82 | tone as to make it seem a defamatory statement.' ~With what justice 804 28 | prepared to admit and to defend, even though it be in their 805 2 | such was his mad fury -- in defiance of the award given by the 806 2 | close quarters, but actually defies your authority and continues 807 34 | noble things so basely as to defile them, and that frequently, 808 16 | me to speak of your ugly deformity of a face and to be silent 809 24 | I hope, am in no ways a degenerate successor, but receive like 810 10 | Tibullus for singing of Delia in his verse, when it was 811 74 | change of attitude, this deliberate quarrel with his mother, 812 98 | and betaken himself to the delight s of the tavern. He despises 813 41 | investigations as these ` pursue a delightful form of amusement which 814 41 | I suppos e, Deucalion's deluge has made it possible to 815 75 | poured in on every side with demands for payment. Every one that 816 27 | of Anaxagoras, Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus, and other 817 27 | purifications' of Empedocles, the `demon' of Socrates and the `good' 818 48 | and difficult a task to demonstrate the rightness or wrongness 819 15 | ignorant of the fact that Demosthenes, the greatest master of 820 42 | had been dispersed, one denarius having found its way into 821 26 | escort of friends; he who denounces a poisoner is unusually 822 60 | prevented the transaction by denouncing it, but I knew that so foolish 823 83 | rather listen to them; Pu dentilla never accused Apuleius of 824 7 | teeth as a matter for savage denunciation, and condemned my administration 825 48 | most. He added that she departed immediately after telling 826 64 | All things,' he says, `depend upon the King of all things 827 71 | with those of his brother depended on his mother. His grandfather 828 82 | be attacked, if a passage depending for its sense on what ha 829 55 | I might deny that I had deposited any handkerchief of mine 830 31 | might contain, and after depositing the price ordered all the 831 75 | and pr otected by the very depth of his fall, managed to 832 16 | withdraw the image into its depths, now to extrude it forth 833 19 | suitable person before whom to deride poverty, because he himself 834 48 | asked them what profit I derived from my incantations They 835 38 | amphibia, lepidôta, pholidôta, dermo ptera, steganopoda, monèrè, 836 98 | to his uncle's house. The des ign was to facilitate the 837 24 | Cyrus for being of mixed descent, half Mede, half Persian. 838 40 | of all kind of animals, describing the place, number and purpose 839 100| himself, who hastened to desert you when you were plunged 840 76 | married her, she had been deserted by a young man of good family 841 102| which has not received its deserts! By her will, which she 842 60 | it with the contempt it deserved. I wished not only that 843 73 | that it was his cherished design -- with my permission -- 844 22 | a mere invention of mine designed to meet the needs of my 845 91 | they have denounced me for desiring such a wife from motives 846 99 | would create. I did not desist till she complied. ~I regret 847 77 | of a husband against his desperate greed all the more necessary 848 22 | Hercules himself, since you despi se my instances as drawn 849 92 | character or wealth, was no despicable match, to become her husband? 850 4 | gods are in no wise to be despised; but the things which they 851 25 | your verdict once given, is destined to leave not a wrack of 852 79 | letter should have power to destroy and not to save. - `But,' 853 50 | flood the brain with its destructive stream, it straigh tway 854 37 | the beginning, then some details concerning the fish. And 855 70 | gave full reasons for her determination. She told him pretty fully 856 85 | who would not loathe and detest a boy that is `wicked before 857 25 | guilty of ghastly crimes, detestable sorceries, and black art-magic. 858 83 | lies are laid bare; truth dethroned for a while rises once more 859 45 | one of my accusers does detract from his credibility. It 860 41 | Gaetulia, where, I suppos e, Deucalion's deluge has made it possible 861 61 | make me certain mechanical devices and also begged him to make 862 102| least invent something, devise some suitable reply to questions 863 74 | nizer of every lawsuit, the deviser of every perjury, the architect 864 86 | as cunning as any fox and devoid of all filial affection? ~ 865 16 | Aemilianus, and, instead of devoting yourself to the study of 866 51 | straightway turn upon it and devour it, whether from a malign 867 81 | cunning or such marvellous dexte rity in crime. What Palamedes, 868 72 | after my health, and touched dexterously on the subject of love. 869 80 | this point, but enough of dialectic! ~I will read out the letter 870 15 | argumentation from t he dialectician Eubulides, last of all he 871 101| henceforth let him himself dictate to his mother the terms 872 88 | wives but consulships and dictatorships in the open field. On such 873 73 | expressions of approval, the au dience shouted `bravo! bravo!' 874 98 | he knows that if this boy dies intestate he will be his 875 21 | subsist on unusually light diet, wear unusually light clothing, 876 58 | smoke? Does night smoke differ from day smoke in being 877 38 | various manners of life, the difference of their members and ages, 878 79 | your witnesses and your diffu se eloquence, have failed 879 78 | property sword. ~But I am digressing. Pudentilla, seeing to her 880 40 | of their various parts, diligently investigating Aristotle' 881 16 | precisely their original dimensions, whereas in convex and spherical 882 40 | alone of all fishes has its diminutive heart placed in its stomach, 883 58 | Quintianus, supposing him to have dined off some birds or, as they 884 88 | sesterces and to escape dining in your company or at your 885 75 | of loose serenades, his dining-room wild with revel, his bedchambers 886 88 | the frequent and wearisome dinner-parties which custom generally imposes 887 29 | I had wanted them for a dinner-party, I should have got them 888 28 | which has gathered from all directions to hear this case, may clearly 889 98 | house, orders your slaves, directs your banquets. He is frequently 890 7 | will not allow a speck of dirt to be seen upon his person, 891 19 | like poor folk under the dis guise of their moderation. 892 66 | compensation for any number of disadvantages, it would be contrary to 893 25 | against me. But you have disappointed all men's expectations by 894 66 | contrary to my interests. ~Disappointment and envy are the sole causes 895 103| proconsul than to incur the disapproval of so good and so perfect 896 26 | unforeseen and inevitable disaster? Nothing can save him, and 897 57 | hand, it was his nose that discerned the smoke, he surpasses 898 39 | who remembers that he is a disciple of Plato, is it disgraceful 899 15 | as an instrument of moral discipline. Again, who is ignorant 900 81 | meaning and brought me into discredit with certain citizens of 901 74 | place. Nevertheless this discreditable change of attitude, this 902 91 | your perfect erudition, disdain to reply to the accusations 903 50 | at the price of a slight disfigure ment of the body. ~But if, 904 3 | triviality, can only bring disgrace. I am not to blame. Ridiculous 905 44 | ventures to eat from the same dish with him or to drink from 906 83 | should not give ear to a dishonest villain attempting to prove 907 75 | the gainer by his father's dishonesty. This honourable fellow 908 83 | when Rufinus first made disingenuous excerpts from that letter, 909 99 | struggle to prevent her disinheriting this boy on account of the 910 91 | out of their way to make disparaging remarks both about her age 911 99 | past is concerned, I will dispel your fears on that point. 912 67 | opportunity of publicly dispelling the hatred of which I am 913 22 | stuff as to permit me to dispense with all this furniture 914 73 | a citizen of Oea. On the dispersal of the audience Pontianus 915 53 | I left it to others to dispose of at their pleasure! ~What 916 72 | and was not in the least disposed to take a wife, he begged 917 22 | Cynic Diogenes, when he disputed with Alexander the Great, 918 86 | your mother in outrageously disrespectful, abwive, and unseemly language, 919 40 | purpose save evil did you dissect the fish brought you by 920 93 | master in her house than the dissemination of strife between mother 921 11 | these matters and the lik e, dissimulation and concealment is the mark 922 82 | Pontianus at his side all dissolved in tears, has shown them 923 24 | the presence of that most dist inguished citizen Lollianus 924 68 | kept all other suitors at a distance. He further threatened her 925 43 | eyes are dull, his nostrils distended, his feet stumbling. He 926 52 | Thallus distorts his eyes, you distort the truth; Thallus contracts 927 52 | agains t others; Thallus distorts his eyes, you distort the 928 21 | since the leas I have to distract me the happier I shall be. 929 79 | he r wits, she loved you distractedly.' I will grant it for the 930 10 | Dion, with love thou hast distraught my soul. ~ 931 28 | frightful annoyance and distress to Aemilianus. Hence springs 932 85 | The present is equally distressing. To think that this unhappy 933 24 | by the fertility of the district which produces them, the 934 71 | opposition for fear of seeming to distrust her. ~ 935 91 | 91] ~See, Maximus, what a disturbance they have raised, merely 936 84 | may neither be stayed nor diverted, what power is left for 937 22 | even praised in song by diverting from their original meaning 938 50 | confusion those channels of divinity and paths of wisdom. During 939 53 | save the ill-starred ma dness of an embittered spirit 940 12 | lofty and divine Platonic doctrina, that are familiar to but 941 79 | judge, is a far more weighty document than what is written in 942 32 | ory of sorcerers seamews, dolphins, and the lobster; gourmands 943 24 | the Roman people to the dominion of King Masinissa, and finally 944 94 | mother had completed her donation. He fell at our feet and 945 46 | was falling flat and was doomed to failure by the frowns 946 3 | against them. It is therefore doubly vexatious to the g ood and 947 103| sorceries or at least some doubtful ins tance from those which 948 38 | hear, Maximus. You have doubtless frequently read the like 949 61 | tablets permitted. By careful dove-tailing of minute portions of the 950 92 | borrowed 400,000 sesterce s to dower his daughter, while Pudentilla, 951 92 | though she is poor, is amply dowered. For she brings to her husband 952 7 | is placed low and looks downward to the feet, is in close 953 15 | that supreme orator had drained deep draughts of eloquence 954 15 | orator had drained deep draughts of eloquence in the study 955 30 | the two-tailed lizard that draws on to love, and eke the 956 64 | walks by night, all the dread dwellers in the tomb, all 957 60 | cause I am afraid of these dreadful feathers and stains of soot -- 958 69 | remain a widow no longer. The dreariness of her solitary life she 959 3 | usual loquacity a flood of drivelling accusations, many of which 960 18 | state; if Publicola, who drove out the Kings, or Agrippa, 961 59 | For he sold Aemilianus his dru nken fictions for 3,000 962 59 | been unable to abstain from drunkenness sufficiently long to keep 963 2 | the will to be genuine and duly proven, he continued -- 964 61 | out of this rarer and more durable material: such a gift, he 965 6 | teeth withal.~This delicate dust of Arab spices fine,~shall 966 24 | attained to the post of duumvir and became the foremost 967 64 | by night, all the dread dwellers in the tomb, all the horrors 968 75 | language. But his house is the dwelling-place of panders, his whole household 969 94 | wit! what grace and cha rm dwelt in that reply! Only a `good 970 76 | pupil, when they saw her dyed lips, her rouged cheeks, 971 25 | exhausting its flimsy fuel, dying fast away, leaving not a 972 8 | the emission of dark, d eadly poison? On the other hand 973 68 | the boys' grandfather was eage r that she should, in spite 974 83 | admiration for him and were eager through me to become yet 975 21 | the animal kingdom, to the eagle, to the bull, to the lion? 976 45 | sight of its rotations w eakens his already feeble mind, 977 17 | And yet but a few minutes earlier he had declared that I came 978 3 | slanders, lest I, whose most earnest endeavour it is to avoid 979 87 | and shepherds, that she earnestly warned his brother Pontianus 980 99 | prayed her with the utmost earnestness to erase that most important 981 18 | and offerings borne in an earthen platter. If the judges sitting 982 16 | from your darkness can with ease form an opinion as to what 983 88 | couples. This is the whole r eason, Aemilianus, why our marriage 984 41 | me which is one of the r easons for the admiration with 985 31 | fish save to be cooked and eaten at meals? In magic they 986 26 | unusually careful as to what he eats; he who accuses a thief 987 21 | as on the stormy ocean h eavy things sink us and light 988 9 | the crimson of the rose eclipse~with kisses from thy rosy 989 95 | point, Sallust with its economy and Cicero with its wealth 990 50 | dangerous. For it causes an eczema to break out upon the surface 991 83 | now, when they are of more effectual service to me, their truth 992 74 | and inartistic in his very effeminacy. He is said not to have 993 78 | soul. That you, the most effeminate of men, should threaten 994 11 | indictment? For sportive effusions in verse are valueless as 995 53 | know what they were, I ther efore argue that they were magical. 996 56 | used by the holy priests of Egypt, not only for clothing and 997 38 | names such as are used in Egyptian or Babylonian rites. Selacheia, 998 30 | that draws on to love, and eke the charm tbat gods the 999 25 | as being the best of the elders of Persia, one the wisest, 1000 12 | familiar to but few of the elect and wholly unknown to all 1001 14 | is the most convinc ing element in a likeness: whereas in