Petronius

W. H. D. (William Henry Denham) Rouse, Robarts - University Of Toronto, Petronius Arbiter, Michael Heseltine, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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iOO"COf*wy< k."g|Presented to theLIBRARIES theofUNIVERSITYOFTORONTObyPHILLIPSMARGARETLIBRARYTHE LOEB CLASSICALEDITED BYPAGE, LTTT.D.E. CAPPS, PH.D.. LL.D. T. E.W. H. D. ROUSE, UTT.D.PETRONIUSSENECAAPOCOLOCYNTOSI8Pint Printed 1913B.tprinttd 1016, 1922, 192SPETROIN^IUSBYWITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONMICHAEL HESELTINESENECAAPOCOLOCYNTOSISENGLISH TRANSLATION BYWITH ANVV. D. ROUSE, M.A. LITT. D.H.LONDON WILLIAM: HEINEMANN LTD.NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONSMCMXXVBritain byin GreatPrintedLondon N. iand Sons, Ltd.,Woods: —INTRODUCTIONThe author identifiedof the Satyricon is by the largemajority of scholars with Gaius Petronius/ the cour-tier of Nero. There is a long tradition in support ofthe identification, and the probability that it is cor-rect appears especially strong in the light of Tacitus'saccount of the character and death ofGaius Petroniusin the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters ofthe six-teenth book of the Annals. Mr. John Jackson hastranslated the passage as followsPetronius deserves a word in retrospect. He wasa man who passed his days in sleep, his nights in theordinary duties and recreations of life : others hadachieved greatness by the sweat of their browsPetronius idled into fame. Unlike most who walkthe road to ruin, he was never regarded as eitherdebauchee or wastrel, but rather as the finished artistin extravagance. In both word action, dis-and heplayed a freedom and a sort of self-abandonmentwhich were ...

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• Publié par: ansio
• Nombre de lectures: 61
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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iOO "COf*wy< k."g| Presented to the LIBRARIES theof UNIVERSITYOFTORONTO by PHILLIPSMARGARETLIBRARYTHE LOEB CLASSICAL EDITED BY PAGE, LTTT.D.E. CAPPS, PH.D.. LL.D. T. E. W . H. D. ROUSE, UTT.D. PETRONIUS SENECA APOCOLOCYNTOSI8Pint Printed 1913 B.tprinttd 1016, 1922, 192SPETROIN^IUS BYWITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION MICHAEL HESELTINE SENECA APOCOLOCYNTOSIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION BYWITH AN VV. D. ROUSE, M.A. LITT. D.H. LONDON WILLIAM : HEINEMANN LTD. NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS MCMXXVBritain byin GreatPrinted London N. iand Sons, Ltd.,Woods