THE SATYRICON OF
PETRONIUS ARBITER
Volume 7.
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:
SIX NOTES BY MARCHENA
Army of the Rhine
I. Soldiers in love
II. Courtesans
III. Greek love
IV. Pollution
V. Virginity
VI. Pandars
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATIONS:
THE SATYRICON OF
PETRONIUS ARBITER
Volume 7.
BRACKET CODE
(Forgeries of Nodot)
[Forgeries of Marchena]
{Additions of De Salas}
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THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER
SIX NOTES BY MARCHENA.
TO THE ARMY OF THE RHINE.
The conquests of the French have resulted, during this war, in a boon toknowledge and to letters. Egypt has furnished us with monuments of itsaboriginal inhabitants, which the ignorance and superstition of the Coptsand Mussulmans kept concealed from civilized countries. The libraries ofthe convents of the various countries have been ransacked by savants andprecious manuscripts have been brought to light.
By no means the least interesting of the acquisitions is a fragment ofPetronius, which we offer to the public, taken from an ancient manuscriptwhich our soldiers, in conquering St. Gall, have sent to us forexamination. We have made an important discovery in reading a parchmentwhich contains the work of St. Gennadius on the Duties of Priests, andwhich, judging from the form of the letters employed, we should say waswritten in the eleventh century. A most careful examination led us toperceive that the work by this saint had been written on pages containingwritten letters, which had been almost effaced. We