Vulgar words in Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero (Page 1)
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"I have just maintained that thou hast a glimmer of understanding, but Cæsar insists that thou art an ass pure and simple."
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Next appeared men who mimicked beasts and their voices, ball-players and buffoons.
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They say that Christians not only worship an ass's head, but are enemies of the human race, and permit the foulest crimes.
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Wouldst thou persuade us that Pomponia, and with her Lygia, could belong to the enemies of the human race, to the poisoners of wells and fountains, to the worshippers of an ass's head, to people who murder infants and give themselves up to the foulest license?
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Though the plebs, too, and even animals, experience pleasure, a genuine man differs from them in this especially, that he makes love in some way a noble art, and, admiring it, knows all its divine value, makes it present in his mind, thus satisfying not his body merely, but his soul.
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we shall die buffoons and comedians!
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Here Chilo began to relate, with a certain surprise, that he had never seen that they gave themselves up to debauchery, that they poisoned wells or fountains, that they were enemies of the human race, worshipped an ass, or ate the flesh of children.
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We admire him apparently; and instead of saying to him, Go to sleep, thou buffoon!
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But the rabble was howling yet and applauding, knowing that it would applaud to itself favors, gifts, banquets, lottery tickets, and a fresh exhibition by the Imperial buffoon.
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I despise Bronzebeard, because he is a Greek buffoon.
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"Or exhibiting learned monkeys, calculating dogs, or a flute-playing ass," added Petronius.
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And the rabble will be elated because Cæsar is its buffoon."
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That profligate, that buffoon, but also lord of thirty legions, and through them of the whole earth; those courtiers covered with gold and scarlet, uncertain of the morrow, but mightier meanwhile than kings,--all this together seemed a species of hellish kingdom of wrong and evil.
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Shouts of "Sanio," "Histrio" (buffoon, actor), "Matricide!" were heard round about.
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Vinicius believed that Nero's hour had struck, that those ruins into which the city was falling should and must overwhelm the monstrous buffoon together with all those crimes of his.
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No edict against Christians has been issued; but the Jews complain to the prefect of the city that Christians murder infants, worship an ass, and preach a religion not recognized by the Senate; they beat them, and attack their houses of prayer so fiercely that the Christians are forced to hide."
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What buffoons, tricksters, a vile herd without taste or polish!
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As Cæsar fell lower daily to the role of a comedian, a buffoon, and a charioteer; as he sank deeper in a sickly, foul, and coarse dissipation,--the exquisite arbiter became a mere burden to him.