Vulgar words in The Letters of Pliny the Younger (Page 1)
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CII To GENITOR I HAVE received your letter, in which you complain of having been highly disgusted lately at a very splendid entertainment, by a set of buffoons, mummers, and wanton prostitutes, who were dancing about round the tables.151 But let me advise you to smooth your knitted brow somewhat.
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The truth is, because the gestures of the wanton, the pleasantries of the buffoon, or the extravagancies of the mummer, give me no pleasure, as they give me no surprise.