THE SATYRICON OF
PETRONIUS ARBITER
Volume 6.
Complete and unexpurgated translation by W. C. Firebaugh,in which are incorporated the forgeries of Nodot and Marchena,and the readings introduced into the text by De Salas.
CONTENTS
NOTES
PROSTITUTION
PAEDERASTIA
CHAPTER NOTES
9 Gladiator obscene
17 Impotence
26 Peepholes in brothels
34 Silver Skeleton
36 Marsyas
40 A pie full of birds
56 Contumelia
116 Life in Rome
116 Legacy hunting
119 Castration
127 Circe's voice
131 Sputum in charms
131 The "infamous finger"
138 The dildo
The Cordax
ILLUSTRATIONS
Volume 6.
BRACKET CODE:
(Forgeries of Nodot)
[Forgeries of Marchena]
{Additions of De Salas}
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PROSTITUTION.
There are two basic instincts in the character of the normal individual;the will to live, and the will to propagate the species. It is from theinterplay of these instincts that prostitution took origin, and it is forthis reason that this profession is the oldest in human experience, thefirst offspring, as it were, of savagery and of civilization. When Fateturns the
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