Vulgar words in The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio (Page 1)
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And as for slaves, damn me if I believe a tenth of them knows the master by sight.
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Because he wanted his wool to rival other things in quality, he bought rams at Tarentum and sent 'em into his flocks with a slap on the arse.
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He even wrote to India for mushroom seed one day, and he hasn't a single mule that wasn't sired by a wild ass.
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They graft with the bakers, scratch-my-arse-and-I'll-scratch-yours!
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It would have been better if that she-piss- pot, for that's all she's fit for, had been tossed by the bull, but a fellow has to beat the saddle when he can't beat the jackass.
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One plug had about as much action as a jackass with a pack-saddle; another was club-footed; and a third who had to take the place of one that was killed, was as good as dead, and hamstrung into the bargain.
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And, so you won't think I'm a blockhead, I'm going to show you that I'm well acquainted with how Corinthian first came into the world.
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He's a peach, he is, laughing at others; some vagabond or other from who-knows-where, some night-pad who's not worth his own piss: just let me piss a ring around him and he wouldn't know where to run to!
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But you scurry around and are as flustered and fidgeted as a mouse in a piss-pot.
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My heart was in my mouth, and I sat there while he pissed a ring around them and was suddenly turned into a wolf!
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And now I'll tell you a hair-raiser myself, though I'm like a jackass on a slippery pavement compared to him.
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Let's see, for the first course, we had a hog, crowned with a wine cup and garnished with cheese cakes and chicken livers cooked well done, beets, of course, and whole-wheat bread, which I'd rather have than white, because it puts strength into you, and when I take a crap afterwards, I don't have to yell.
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We'd have everything as cheap as dirt if there were no women, but we have to piss hot and drink cold, the way things are now."
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"Yes," Scintilla broke in, "and you've not mentioned all of his accomplishments either; he's a pimp too, and I'm going to see that he's branded," she snapped.
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But as for Trimalchio, "What the hell's next?" he gritted out, "this Syrian dancing-whore don't remember anything!
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And here she puffs herself up like a frog and pukes in her own nest; she's a blockhead, all right, not a woman.
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Ain't that the truth, you high-stepping hussy'?
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"Habinnas, you were there, I think, I'll leave it to you; didn't he say--'You took your wife out of a whore-house'?