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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Tell me what is it thou particularly wishest? I wish to have Lygia. I wish that these hands of mine vrhich now only embrace the air, might hold her and press her in their embrace. I wish to breathe her breath. If she were a slave, I would give Aulus for her a hundred maidens, with feet whiter than chalk, as sign that they had been for the first time exposed for sale. I wish to have her in my house till my head, is as white as the summit of Soracte in winter. Though she is not a slave, yet because she belongs to Plautius's family, and because she has been forsaken by her parents, she may be regarded as a foster-daughter. Had he wished, Plautius might give her to thee. Clearly thou knowest not Pomponia Graecina. Both ar bound up in her as in their own daughter. Indeed, I know Pomponia?a veritable cypress tree. Were she not the wife of Aulus, she might have been hired as a professional mourner. Ever since Julia's death, she has not doffed her mourning; in a word, she looks as if while still living, she were wandering over the asphodel-strewn meadow. Moreover, she is a woman who has had only a single husband?which makes her a phoenix among our much-divorced women. By the way, didst thou hear that a phoenix has actually appeared in Upper Egypt? The thing happens not oftener than once in five hundred years. Petronius Petronius We will talk of the phoenix some other time. Then hearken to me, dear Marcus. I know Aulus Plautius, who, although he disapproves of my manner of life, yet regards me with a certain attachment; and, perhaps, rates me above others, for he knows that I have never been an informer, as for instance, were Domitius Afer, Tigellinus, and the whole gang of Bronzebeard's friends. While making no pretensions of being a stoic, I have more tha...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217979764 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217979769 |
| Weight | 1.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 In |
| List Price | $19.64 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 422 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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