Vulgar words in The Satyricon — Complete (Page 1)
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Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of that masterpiece?
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VOLUME V. 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 SIX NOTES BY MARCHENA Army of the Rhine I.
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A whore had already vacated her cell for an as, and he had laid hands upon me, and, but for the fact that I was the stronger, I would have been compelled to take my medicine."
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At last, completely fagged out, and unable to take another step, I lay down under a tree, and there I first became aware of the loss of the tunic.
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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'?
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"Oh how I wish that this enemy who is the cause of my enforced continence could be mollified," (I cried, with many a groan,) "but he is an old hand at robbery, and more cunning than the pimps themselves!"
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The whore Displaces the wife; and in perfumes, the cinnamon more Is esteemed than the rose!
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Do not the tragedians 'Damn their eyes' just as if they could hear?
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(As she said this OEnothea brought) out a leathern dildo which, when she had smeared it with oil, ground pepper, and pounded nettle seed, she commenced to force, little by little, up my anus.
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Pimps sought custom for these houses and there was a good understanding between the parasites and the prostitutes.
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In these pretentious houses, the owner kept a secretary, villicus puellarum, or superintendent of maids; this official assigned a girl her name, fixed the price to be demanded for her favors, received the money and provided clothing and other necessities: "you stood with the harlots, you stood decked out to please the public, wearing the costume the pimp had furnished you"; Seneca, Controv.
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You will not rush off to the dancing-girl's house, lest while you gaze upon her charms, some whore should pelt you with an apple and ruin your reputation."
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"OEnothea brought out a leathern dildo."
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Since the day the Milesians betrayed us, I have never once caught sight of an eight-inch-long dildo even, to be a leathern consolation to us poor widows."
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METRO: You have as hard a time as I do, Koritto, dear--day and night these low servants make me gnash my teeth and bark like a dog, just like they do you.--But I came to see you about--(to the slave girl) get out of here, get out of my sight, you trouble maker, you're all ears and tongue and nothing else, all you do is to sit around Koritto--dear, now please don't tell me a fib, who stitched that red dildo of yours?
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I don't want to talk bigger than a lady should--I wouldn't give her even a rotten dildo; no, not even if I had a thousand!
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My tongue ought to be cut out; honestly it should: but to get back to the question I asked you a moment ago: who stitched the dildo?
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Never did her suitors express a tender thought for Penelope, and, instead of making love to her, they squandered her property, slept with her slaves, and took charge of things in her house.
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Wont thou as peasant-girls to jape He-whore!
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In their Mercury, the ancients realized their beau ideal or archetype of go-between which they called; in vulgar language "pimp".