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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Satyricon, Vol. 1, Introduction + +Author: Petronius Arbiter + +Release Date: May 20, 2004 [EBook #5218] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SATYRICON, VOL. 1 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<br><hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h1> + <a name="PREFACE">THE SATYRICON OF</a> +<br> PETRONIUS ARBITER +</h1> +</center> + +<br> +<br> + <center><h3>Volume 1.</h3></center> + +<br> +<br> +<center> +<a name="bookspine"></a><img alt="bookspine.jpg (92K)" src="images/bookspine.jpg" height="1182" width="650"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<blockquote> +<i>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.</i></blockquote> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<a name="pfront"></a><img alt="pfront.jpg (108K)" src="images/pfront.jpg" height="829" width="599"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<center><h2>PREFACE</h2></center> +<p>Among the difficulties which beset the path of the conscientious +translator, a sense of his own unworthiness must ever take precedence; +but another, scarcely less disconcerting, is the likelihood of +misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the author +and his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, +is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of a later +generation. + +<p>A translation worthy of the name is as much the product of a literary +epoch as it is of the brain and labor of a scholar; and Melmouth's +version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made, as it was, at a +period when the art of English letter writing had attained its highest +excellence, may well be the despair of our twentieth century apostles of +specialization. Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass +with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of +that masterpiece? Who could rival Arthur Golding's rendering of the +Metamorphoses of Ovid, or Francis Hicke's masterly rendering of Lucian's +True History? But eternal life means endless change and in nothing is +this truth more strikingly manifest than in the growth and decadence of +living languages and in the translation of dead tongues into the ever +changing tissue of the living. Were it not for this, no translation +worthy of the name would ever stand in need of revision, except in +instances where the discovery and collation of fresh manuscripts had +improved the text. In the case of an author whose characters speak in +the argot proper to their surroundings, the necessity for revision is +even more imperative; the change in the cultured speech of a language is +a process that requires years to become pronounced, the evolution of +slang is rapid and its usage ephemeral. For example Stephen Gaselee, in +his bibliography of Petronius, calls attention to Harry Thurston Peck's +rendering of "bell um pomum" by "he's a daisy," and remarks, +appropriately enough, "that this was well enough for 1898; but we would +now be more inclined to render it 'he's a peach.'" Again, Peck renders +"illud erat vivere" by "that was life," but, in the words of our lyric +American jazz, we would be more inclined to render it "that was the +life." "But," as Professor Gaselee has said, "no rendering of this part +of the Satyricon can be final, it must always be in the slang of the +hour." + +<p>"Some," writes the immortal translator of Rabelais, in his preface, +"have deservedly gained esteem by translating; yet not many condescend +to translate but such as cannot invent; though to do the first well, +requires often as much genius as to do the latter. I wish, reader, +thou mayest be as willing to do the author justice, as I have strove +to do him right." + +<p>Many scholars have lamented the failure of Justus Lipsius to comment upon +Petronius or edit an edition of the Satyricon. Had he done so, he might +have gone far toward piercing the veil of darkness which enshrouds the +authorship of the work and the very age in which the composer flourished. +To me, personally, the fact that Laurence Sterne did not undertake a +version, has caused much regret. The master who delineated Tristram +Shandy's father and the intrigue between the Widow Wadman and Uncle Toby +would have drawn Trimalchio and his peers to admiration. + +<p> W. C. F. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br><blockquote> +<p class="toc"><big><b>CONTENTS</b></big></p><br /> + + +<a href="#PREFACE">PREFACE</a><br /> +<br /> + +<a href="#INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION</a><br /> +<br /> + +<a href="#THE_AUTHOR">THE AUTHOR</a><br /><br /> + + +<a href="#REALISM">REALISM</a><br /><br /> + + +<a href="#FORGERIES">FORGERIES</a><br /> + + +<br> +<p class="toc"><big><b>ILLUSTRATIONS</b></big></p><br /> + + + +<p><a href="#pfront">The Witches [Frontpiece]</a> +<p><a href="#p006">An Extemporary Declamation</a> +<p><a href="#p010">An Old Herb Woman</a> +<p><a href="#p012">Hurrying to the Inn</a> +<p><a href="#p020">Making Off</a> +<p><a href="#p024">Tryphena</a> +<p><a href="#p044">The Holy Mysteries</a> +<p><a href="#p046">Quartilla</a> +<p><a href="#p048">Psyche</a> +<p><a href="#p050">The Catamite</a> +<p><a href="#p052">The Debauch</a> +<p><a href="#p054">The Drunkards</a> +<p><a href="#p056">Quartilla and Giton</a> +<p><a href="#p058">The Chink in the Door</a> +<p><a href="#p062">Pannychis</a> + +</blockquote> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION.</h2> + +<br> +<p>Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to +modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few +have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this +scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to +that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance +and dictator of fashion. The flashing, wit, the masterly touches which +bring out the characters with all the detail of a fine old copper +etching; the marvelous use of realism by this, its first prophet; the +sure knowledge of the perspective and background best adapted to each +episode; the racy style, so smooth, so elegant, so simple when the +educated are speaking, beguile the reader and blind him, at first, to the +many discrepancies and incoherences with which the text, as we have it, +is marred. The more one concentrates upon this author, the more apparent +these faults become and the more one regrets the lacunae in the text. +Notwithstanding numerous articles which deal with this work, some from +the pens of the most profound scholars, its author is still shrouded in +the mists of uncertainty and conjecture. He is as impersonal as +Shakespeare, as aloof as Flaubert, in the opinion of Charles Whibley, +and, it may be added, as genial as Rabelais; an enigmatic genius whose +secret will never be laid bare with the resources at our present command. +As I am not writing for scholars, I do not intend going very deeply into +the labyrinth of critical controversy which surrounds the author and the +work, but I shall deal with a few of the questions which, if properly +understood, will enhance the value of the Satyricon, and contribute, in +some degree, to a better understanding of the author. For the sake of +convenience the questions discussed in this introduction will be arranged +in the following order: +<br> +<br> +<blockquote> +<p> 1. The Satyricon. +<p> 2. The Author. +<p> a His Character. +<p> b His Purpose in Writing. +<p> c Time in which the Action is placed. +<p> d Localization of the Principal Episode. +<p> 3. Realism. +<p> a Influence of the Satyricon upon the Literature of the World. +<p> 4. The Forgeries. +</blockquote> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>I</h2> + +<br> +<h3>THE SATYRICON.</h3> +<br> +<p>Heinsius and Scaliger derive the word from the Greek, +whence comes our English word satyr, but Casaubon, Dacier and Spanheim +derive it from the Latin 'satura,' a plate filled with different kinds +of food, and they refer to Porphyrion's 'multis et variis rebus hoc +carmen refertum est.' + +<p>The text, as we possess it, may be divided into three divisions: the +first and last relate the adventures of Encolpius and his companions, the +second, which is a digression, describes the Dinner of Trimalchio. That +the work was originally divided into books, we had long known from +ancient glossaries, and we learn, from the title of the Traguriensian +manuscript, that the fragments therein contained are excerpts from the +fifteenth and sixteenth books. An interpolation of Fulgentius (Paris +7975) attributes to Book Fourteen the scene related in Chapter 20 of the +work as we have it, and the glossary of St. Benedict Floriacensis cites +the passage 'sed video te totum in illa haerere, quae Troiae halosin +ostendit (Chapter 89), as from Book Fifteen. As there is no reason to +suppose that the chapters intervening between the end of the Cena +(Chapter 79) and Chapter 89 are out of place, it follows that this +passage may have belonged to Book Sixteen, or even Seventeen, but that it +could not have belonged to Book Fifteen. From the interpolation of +Fulgentius we may hazard the opinion that the beginning of the fragments, +as we possess them (Chapters 1 to 26), form part of Book Fourteen. The +Dinner of Trimalchio probably formed a complete book, fifteen, and the +continuation of the adventures of Encolpius down to his meeting with +Eumolpus (end of Chapter 140) Book Sixteen. The discomfiture of Eumolpus +should have closed this book but not the entire work, as the exit of the +two principal characters is not fixed at the time our fragments come to +an end. The original work, then, would probably have exceeded Tom Jones +in length. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>II</h2> + +<br> +<h3><a name="THE_AUTHOR"></a>THE AUTHOR.</h3> +<br> +<p><b>a--</b>"Not often," says Studer (Rheinisches Museum, 1843), "has there been +so much dispute about the author, the times, the character and the +purpose of a writing of antiquity as about the fragments of the Satyricon +of Petronius." The discovery and publication of the Trau manuscript +brought about a literary controversy which has had few parallels, and +which has not entirely died out to this day, although the best +authorities ascribe the work to Caius Petronius, the Arbiter Elegantiarum +at the court of Nero. "The question as to the date of the narrative of +the adventures of Encolpius and his boon companions must be regarded as +settled," says Theodor Mommsen (Hermes, 1878); "this narrative is +unsurpassed in originality and mastery of treatment among the writings of +Roman literature. Nor does anyone doubt the identity of its author and +the Arbiter Elegantiarum of Nero, whose end Tacitus relates." + +<p>In any case, the author of this work, if it be the work of one brain, +must have been a profound psychologist, a master of realism, +a natural-born story teller, and a gentleman. + +<p><b>b--</b>His principal object in writing the work was to amuse but, in amusing, +he also intended to pillory the aristocracy and his wit is as keen as the +point of a rapier; but, when we bear in mind the fact that he was an +ancient, we will find that his cynicism is not cruel, in him there is +none of the malignity of Aristophanes; there is rather the attitude of +the refined patrician who is always under the necessity of facing those +things which he holds most in contempt, the supreme artist who suffers +from the multitude of bill-boards, so to speak, who lashes the posters +but holds in pitying contempt those who know so little of true art that +they mistake those posters for the genuine article. Niebuhr's estimate +of his character is so just and free from prejudice, and proceeds from +a mind which, in itself, was so pure and wholesome, that I will quote it: + +<p>"All great dramatic poets are endowed with the power of creating beings +who seem to act and speak with perfect independence, so that the poet is +nothing more than the relator of what takes place. When Goethe had +conceived Faust and Margarete, Mephistopheles and Wagner, they moved and +had their being without any exercise of his will. But in the peculiar +power which Petronius exercises, in its application to every scene, to +every individual character, in everything, noble or mean, which he +undertakes, I know of but one who is fully equal to the Roman, and that +is Diderot. Trimalchio and Agamemnon might have spoken for Petronius, +and the nephew Rameau and the parson Papin for Diderot, in every +condition and on every occasion inexhaustibly, out of their own nature; +just so the purest and noblest souls, whose kind was, after all, not +entirely extinct in their day. + +<p>"Diderot and a contemporary, related to him in spirit, Count Gaspar +Gozzi, are marked with the same cynicism which disfigures the Roman; +their age, like his, had become shameless. But as the two former were in +their heart noble, upright, and benevolent men, and as in the writings of +Diderot genuine virtue and a tenderness unknown to his contemporaries +breathe, so the peculiarity of such a genius can, as it seems, be given +to a noble and elevated being only. The deep contempt for prevailing +immorality which naturally leads to cynicism, and a heart which beats for +everything great and glorious,--virtues which then had no +existence,--speak from the pages of the Roman in a language intelligible to every +susceptible heart." + +<p><b>c--</b>Beck, in his paper, "The Age of Petronius Arbiter," concluded that the +author lived and wrote between the years 6 A.D. and 34 A.D., but he +overlooked the possibility that the author might have lived a few years +later, written of conditions as they were in his own times, and yet laid +the action of his novel a few years before. Mommsen and Haley place the +time under Augustus, Buecheler, about 36-7 A.D., and Friedlaender under +Nero. + +<p><b>d--</b>La Porte du Theil places the scene at Naples because of the fact the +city in which our heroes met Agamemnon must have been of some +considerable size because neither Encolpius nor Asclytos could find their +way back to their inn, when once they had left it, because both were +tired out from tramping around in search of it and because Giton had been +so impressed with this danger that he took the precaution to mark the +pillars with chalk in order that they might not be lost a second time. +The Gulf of Naples is the only bit of coastline which fits the needs of +the novel, hence the city must be Naples. The fact that neither of the +characters knew the city proves that they had been recent arrivals, and +this furnishes a clue, vague though it is, to what may have gone before. + +<p>Haley, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," vol. II, makes out a +very strong case for Puteoli, and his theory of the old town and the new +town is as ingenious as it is able. Haley also has Trimalchio in his +favor, as has also La Porte du Theil. "I saw the Sibyl at Cumae," says +Trimalchio. Now if the scene of the dinner is actually at Cumae this +sounds very peculiar; it might even be a gloss added by some copyist +whose knowledge was not equal to his industry. On the other hand, +suppose Trimalchio is speaking of something so commonplace in his +locality that the second term has become a generic, then the difficulty +disappears. We today, even though standing upon the very spot in Melos +where the Venus was unearthed, would still refer to her as the Venus de +Melos. Friedlaender, in bracketing Cumis, has not taken this +sufficiently into consideration. Mommsen, in an excellent paper (Hermes, +1878), has laid the scene at Cumae. His logic is almost unanswerable, +and the consensus of opinion is in favor of the latter town. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>III</h2> +<br> +<h3><a name="REALISM"></a>REALISM.</h3> +<br> +<p>Realism, as we are concerned with it, may be defined as the +literary effect produced by the marshaling of details in their exactitude +for the purpose of bringing out character. The fact that they may be +ugly and vulgar the reverse, makes not the slightest difference. The +modern realist contemplates the inanimate things which surround us with +peculiar complaisance, and it is right that he should as these things +exert upon us a constant and secret influence. The workings of the human +mind, in complex civilizations, are by no means simple; they are involved +and varied: our thoughts, our feelings, our wills, associate themselves +with an infinite number of sensations and images which play one upon the +other, and which individualize, in some measure, every action we commit, +and stamp it. The merit of our modern realists lies in the fact that +they have studied the things which surround us and our relations to them, +and thus have they been able to make their creations conform to human +experience. The ancients gave little attention to this; the man, with +them, was the important thing; the environment the unimportant. There +are, of course, exceptions; the interview between Ulysses and Nausiskaa +is probably the most striking. From the standpoint of environment, +Petronius, in the greater portion of his work, is an ancient; but one +exception there is, and it is as brilliant as it is important. The +entire episode, in which Trimalchio figures, offers an incredible +abundance of details. The descriptions are exhaustive and minute, but +the author's prime purpose was not description, it was to bring out the +characters, it was to pillory the Roman aristocracy, it was to amuse! +Cicero, in his prosecution of Verres, had shown up this aristocracy in +all its brutality and greed, it remained for the author of the Cena to +hold its absurdity up to the light of day, to lash an extravagance which, +though utterly unbridled, was yet unable to exhaust the looted +accumulations of years of political double dealing and malfeasance in +office. Trimalchio's introduction is a masterstroke, the porter at the +door is another, the effect of the wine upon the women, their jealousy +lest either's husband should seem more liberal, their appraisal of each +other's jewelry, Scintilla's remark anent the finesse of Habinnas' +servant in the mere matter of pandering, the blear-eyed and black-toothed +slave, teasing a little bitch disgustingly fat, offering her pieces of +bread and when, from sheer inability, she refuses to eat, cramming it +down her throat, the effect of the alcohol upon Trimalchio, the little +old lady girded round with a filthy apron, wearing clogs which were not +mates, dragging in a huge dog on a chain, the incomparable humor in the +passage in which Hesus, desperately seasick, sees that which makes him +believe that even worse misfortunes are in store for him: these details +are masterpieces of realism. The description of the night-prowling +shyster lawyer, whose forehead is covered with sebaceous wens, is the +very acme of propriety; our first meeting; with the poet Eumolpus is a +beautiful study in background and perspective. Nineteen centuries have +gone their way since this novel was written, but if we look about us we +will be able to recognize, under the veneer of civilization, the +originals of the Satyricon and we will find that here, in a little corner +of the Roman world, all humanity was held in miniature. Petronius must +be credited with the great merit of having introduced realism into the +novel. By an inspiration of genius, he saw that the framework of +frivolous and licentious novels could be enlarged until it took in +contemporary custom and environment. It is that which assures for him +an eminent place, not in Roman literature alone, but in the literature +of the world. + +<p><b>a--</b>INFLUENCE OF THE SATYRICON UPON LITERATURE. The vagrant heroes of +Petronius are the originals from whom directly, or indirectly, later +authors drew that inspiration which resulted in the great mass of +picaresque fiction; but, great as this is, it is not to this that the +Satyricon owes its powerful influence upon the literature of the world. +It is to the author's recognition of the importance of environment, +of the vital role of inanimate surroundings as a means for bringing out +character and imbuing his episodes and the actions of his characters with +an air of reality and with those impulses and actions which are common to +human experience, that his influence is due. By this, the Roman created +a new style of writing and inaugurated a class of literature which was +without parallel until the time of Apuleius and, in a lesser degree, of +Lucian. This class of literature, though modified essentially from age +to age, in keeping with the dictates of moral purity or bigotry, innocent +or otherwise, has come to be the very stuff of which literary success in +fiction is made. One may write a successful book without a thread of +romance; one cannot write a successful romance without some knowledge of +realism; the more intimate the knowledge the better the book, and it is +frequently to this that the failure of a novel is due, although the +critic might be at a loss to explain it. Petronius lies behind Tristram +Shandy, his influence can be detected in Smollett, and even Fielding paid +tribute to him. + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>IV</h2> +<br> +<h3><a name="FORGERIES"></a>FORGERIES OF PETRONIUS.</h3> +<br> +<p>From the very nature of the writings of such an author as Petronius, it +is evident that the gaps in the text would have a marked tendency to +stimulate the curiosity of literary forgers and to tempt their sagacity, +literary or otherwise. The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and +the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes +emendandi." + +<p>When, circa 1650, the library of the unfortunate Nicolas Cippico yielded +up the Trau fragment, the news of this discovery spread far and wide and +about twelve years later, Statileo, in response to the repeated requests +of the Venetian ambassador, Pietro Basadonna, made with his own hand a +copy of the MS., which he sent to Basadonna. The ambassador, in turn, +permitted this MS. to be printed by one Frambotti, a printer endowed with +more industry than critical acumen, and the resultant textual conflation +had much to do with the pamphlet war which followed. Had this Paduan +printer followed the explicit directions which he received, and printed +exactly what was given him much good paper might have been saved and a +very interesting chapter in the history of literary forgery would +probably never have been written. The pamphlet war did not die out until +Bleau, in 1670-71, printed his exact reproduction of the Trau manuscript +and the corrections introduced by that licentiousness of emendation of +which we have spoken. + +<p>In October, 1690, Francois Nodot, a French soldier of fortune, a +commissary officer who combined belles lettres and philosophy with his +official duties, wrote to Charpentier, President of the Academy of +France, calling, his attention to a copy of a manuscript which he (Nodot) +possessed, and which came into his hands in the following manner: one +Du Pin, a French officer detailed to service with Austria, had been +present at the sack of Belgrade in 1688. That this Du Pin had, while +there, made the acquaintance of a certain Greek renegade, having, as a +matter of fact, stayed in the house of this renegade. The Greek's +father, a man of some learning, had by some means come into possession of +the MS., and Du Pin, in going through some of the books in the house, had +come across it. He had experienced the utmost difficulty in deciphering +the letters, and finally, driven by curiosity, had retained a copyist and +had it copied out. That this Du Pin had this copy in his house at +Frankfort, and that he had given Nodot to understand that if he (Nodot) +came to Frankfort, he would be permitted to see this copy. Owing to the +exigencies of military service, Nodot had been unable to go in person to +Frankfort, and that he had therefore availed himself of the friendly +interest and services of a certain merchant of Frankfort, who had +volunteered to find an amanuensis, have a copy made, and send it to +Nodot. This was done, and Nodot concludes his letter to Charpentier by +requesting the latter to lay the result before the Academy and ask for +their blessing and approval. These Nodotian Supplements were accepted as +authentic by the Academics of Arles and Nimes, as well as by Charpentier. +In a short time, however, the voices of scholarly skeptics began to be +heard in the land, and accurate and unbiased criticism laid bare the +fraud. The Latinity was attacked and exception taken to Silver Age +prose in which was found a French police regulation which required newly +arrived travellers to register their names in the book of a police +officer of an Italian village of the first century. Although they are +still retained in the text by some editors, this is done to give some +measure of continuity to an otherwise interrupted narrative, but they can +only serve to distort the author and obscure whatever view of him the +reader might otherwise have reached. They are generally printed between +brackets or in different type. + +<p>In 1768 another and far abler forger saw the light of day. Jose +Marchena, a Spaniard of Jewish extraction, was destined for an +ecclesiastical career. He received an excellent education which served +to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism. In +his early youth he showed a marked preference for uncanonical pursuits +and heretical doctrines and before he had reached his thirtieth year +prudence counseled him to prevent the consequences of his heresy and +avoid the too pressing Inquisition by a timely flight into France. +He arrived there in time to throw himself into the fight for liberty, +and in 1800 we find him at Basle attached to the staff of General Moreau. +While there he is said to have amused himself and some of his cronies by +writing notes on what Davenport would have called "Forbidden Subjects," +and, as a means of publishing his erotic lucubrations, he constructed +this fragment, which brings in those topics on which he had enlarged. +He translated the fragment into French, attached his notes, and issued +the book. There is another story to the effect that he had been +reprimanded by Moreau for having written a loose song and that he +exculpated himself by assuring the general that it was but a new fragment +of Petronius which he had translated. Two days later he had the fragment +ready to prove his contention. + +<p>This is the account given by his Spanish biographer. In his preface, +dedicated to the Army of the Rhine, he states that he found the fragment +in a manuscript of the work of St. Gennadius on the Duties of Priests, +probably of the XI Century. A close examination revealed the fact that +it was a palimpsest which, after treatment, permitted the restoration of +this fragment. It is supposed to supply the gap in Chapter 26 after the +word "verberabant." + +<p>Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, +style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect +imitation. There is no internal evidence of forgery. If the text is +closely scrutinized it will be seen that it is composed of words and +expressions taken from various parts of the Satyricon, "and that in every +line it has exactly the Petronian turn of phrase." + +<p>"Not only is the original edition unprocurable," to quote again from +Mr. Gaselee's invaluable bibliography, "but the reprint at Soleure +(Brussels), 1865, consisted of only 120 copies, and is hard to find. +The most accessible place for English readers is in Bohn's translation, +in which, however, only the Latin text is given; and the notes were a +most important part of the original work." + +<p>These notes, humorously and perhaps sarcastically ascribed to Lallemand, +Sanctae Theologiae Doctor, "are six in number (all on various forms of +vice); and show great knowledge, classical and sociological, of unsavory +subjects. Now that the book is too rare to do us any harm, we may admit +that the pastiche was not only highly amusing, but showed a perverse +cleverness amounting almost to genius." + +<p>Marchena died at Madrid in great poverty in 1821. A contemporary has +described him as being rather short and heavy set in figure, of great +frontal development, and vain beyond belief. He considered himself +invincible where women were concerned. He had a peculiar predilection +in the choice of animal pets and was an object of fear and curiosity +to the towns people. His forgery might have been completely successful +had he not acknowledged it himself within two or three years after the +publication of his brochure. The fragment will remain a permanent +tribute to the excellence of his scholarship, but it is his Ode to Christ +Crucified which has made him more generally known, and it is one of the +ironies of fate that caused this deformed giant of sarcasm to compose a +poem of such tender and touching piety. + +<p>Very little is known about Don Joe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas, whose +connecting passages, with the exception of one which is irrelevant, are +here included. + +<p>The learned editors of the Spanish encyclopedia naively preface their +brief sketch with the following assertion: "no tenemos noticias de su +vida." De Salas was born in 1588 and died in 1654. His edition of +Petronius was first issued in 1629 and re-issued in 1643 with a copper +plate of the Editor. The Paris edition, from which he says he supplied +certain deficiencies in the text, is unknown to bibliographers and is +supposed to be fictitious. + +<p>To distinguish the spurious passages, as a point of interest, in the +present edition, the forgeries of Nodot are printed within round +brackets, the forgery of Marchena within square brackets, and the +additions of De Salas in italics {In this PG etext in curly brackets}. + +<p>The work is also accompanied by a translation of the six notes, the +composition of which led Marchena to forge the fragment which first +appeared in the year 1800. These have never before been translated. + +<p>Thanks are due Ralph Straus, Esq., and Professor Stephen Gaselee. +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> + <h1><a name="THE SATYRICON"></a>THE SATYRICON OF</h1> + <h1>PETRONIUS ARBITER</h1> +</center> + +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<blockquote> +<p><i><b>BRACKET CODE:</b></i></p> +<p><i>(Forgeries of Nodot)</i></p> +<p><i>[Forgeries of Marchena]</i></p> +<p><i>{Additions of De Salas}</i></p> +<p><i> DW</i></p> +</blockquote> + +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<h1><a name="VOLUME_I."></a>VOLUME I.</h1> +<h1>ADVENTURES OF ENCOLPIUS AND HIS COMPANIONS</h1> +</center> + +<br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIRST.</h2> +<br> +<p>(It has been so long; since I promised you the story of my adventures, +that I have decided to make good my word today; and, seeing that we have +thus fortunately met, not to discuss scientific matters alone, but also +to enliven our jolly conversation with witty stories. Fabricius Veiento +has already spoken very cleverly on the errors committed in the name of +religion, and shown how priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for +prophecy, boldly expound mysteries which are too often such to +themselves. But) are our rhetoricians tormented by another species of +Furies when they cry, "I received these wounds while fighting for the +public liberty; I lost this eye in your defense: give me a guide who will +lead me to my children, my limbs are hamstrung and will not hold me up!" +Even these heroics could be endured if they made easier the road to +eloquence; but as it is, their sole gain from this ferment of matter and +empty discord of words is, that when they step into the Forum, they think +they have been carried into another world. And it is my conviction that +the schools are responsible for the gross foolishness of our young men, +because, in them, they see or hear nothing at all of the affairs of +every-day life, but only pirates standing in chains upon the shore, +tyrants scribbling edicts in which sons are ordered to behead their own +fathers; responses from oracles, delivered in time of pestilence, +ordering the immolation of three or more virgins; every word a honied +drop, every period sprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SECOND.</h2> +<br> +<p>Those who are brought up on such a diet can no more attain to wisdom than +a kitchen scullion can attain to a keen sense of smell or avoid stinking +of the grease. With your indulgence, I will speak out: you--teachers--are chiefly +responsible for the decay of oratory. With your well +modulated and empty tones you have so labored for rhetorical effect that +the body of your speech has lost its vigor and died. Young men did not +learn set speeches in the days when Sophocles and Euripides were +searching for words in which to express themselves. In the days when +Pindar and the nine lyric poets feared to attempt Homeric verse there was +no private tutor to stifle budding genius. I need not cite the poets for +evidence, for I do not find that either Plato or Demosthenes was given +to this kind of exercise. A dignified and, if I may say it, a chaste, +style, is neither elaborate nor loaded with ornament; it rises supreme by +its own natural purity. This windy and high-sounding bombast, a recent +immigrant to Athens, from Asia, touched with its breath the aspiring +minds of youth, with the effect of some pestilential planet, and as soon +as the tradition of the past was broken, eloquence halted and was +stricken dumb. Since that, who has attained to the sublimity of +Thucydides, who rivalled the fame of Hyperides? Not a single poem +has glowed with a healthy color, but all of them, as though nourished +on the same diet, lacked the strength to live to old age. Painting +also suffered the same fate when the presumption of the Egyptians +"commercialized" that incomparable art. (I was holding forth along these +lines one day, when Agamemnon came up to us and scanned with a curious +eye a person to whom the audience was listening so closely.) + + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE THIRD.</h2> +<br> +<p>He would not permit me to declaim longer in the portico than he himself +had sweat in the school, but exclaimed, "Your sentiments do not reflect +the public taste, young man, and you are a lover of common sense, which +is still more unusual. For that reason, I will not deceive you as to the +secrets of my profession. The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics, +are by no means to blame for these exercises. Unless they spoke in +accordance with the dictates of their young pupils, they would, as Cicero +remarks, be left alone in the schools! And, as designing parasites, when +they seek invitations to the tables of the rich, have in mind nothing +except what will, in their opinion, be most acceptable to their audience +--for in no other way can they secure their ends, save by setting snares +for the ears--so it is with the teachers of rhetoric, they might be +compared with the fisherman, who, unless he baits his hook with what he +knows is most appetizing to the little fish, may wait all day upon some +rock, without the hope of a catch." +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p006"></a><img alt="p006.jpg (84K)" src="images/p006.jpg" height="915" width="623"></center> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FOURTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>What, then, is there to do? The parents who are unwilling to permit +their children to undergo a course of training under strict discipline, +are the ones who deserve the reproof. In the first place, everything +they possess, including the children, is devoted to ambition. Then, that +their wishes may the more quickly be realized, they drive these unripe +scholars into the forum, and the profession of eloquence, than which none +is considered nobler, devolves upon boys who are still in the act of +being born! If, however, they would permit a graded course of study to +be prescribed, in order that studious boys might ripen their minds by +diligent reading; balance their judgment by precepts of wisdom, correct +their compositions with an unsparing pen, hear at length what they ought +to imitate, and be convinced that nothing can be sublime when it is +designed to catch the fancy of boys, then the grand style of oratory +would immediately recover the weight and splendor of its majesty. Now +the boys play in the schools, the young men are laughed at in the forum, +and, a worse symptom than either, no one, in his old age, will confess +the errors he was taught in his school days. But that you may not +imagine that I disapprove of a jingle in the Lucilian manner, I will +deliver my opinions in verse,-- + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIFTH.</h2> +<br> + +<blockquote> + + +<br> "The man who emerges with fame, from the school of stern art, + +<br> Whose mind gropes for lofty ideals, to bring them to light, + +<br> Must first, under rigid frugality, study his part; + +<br> Nor yearn for the courts of proud princes who frown in their might: + +<br> Nor scheme with the riff-raf, a client in order to dine, + +<br> Nor can he with evil companions his wit drown in wine + +<br> Nor sit, as a hireling, applauding an actor's grimace. + +<br> But, whether the fortress of arms-bearing Tritonis smile + +<br> Upon him, or land which the Spartan colonials grace, + +<br> Or home of the sirens, with poetry let him beguile + +<br> The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring + +<br> His fortunate soul drink its fill: Then, when later, the lore + +<br> Of Socrates' school he has mastered, the reins let him fling, + +<br> And brandish the weapons that mighty Demosthenes bore. + +<br> Then, steeped in the culture and music of Greece, let his taste + +<br> Be ripened and mellowed by all the great writers of Rome. + +<br> At first, let him haunt not the courts; let his pages be graced + +<br> By ringing and rhythmic effusions composed in his home + +<br> Next, banquets and wars be his theme, sung in soul-stirring chant, + +<br> In eloquent words such as undaunted Cicero chose. + +<br> Come! Gird up thy soul! Inspiration will then force a vent + +<br> And rush in a flood from a heart that is loved by the muse!" +</blockquote> + +<br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SIXTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>I was listening so attentively to this speech that I did not notice the +flight of Ascyltos, and while I was pacing the gardens, engulfed in this +flood-tide of rhetoric, a large crowd of students came out upon the +portico, having, it would seem, just listened to an extemporaneous +declamation, of I know not whom, the speaker of which had taken +exceptions to the speech of Agamemnon. While, therefore, the young men +were making fun of the sentiments of this last speaker, and criticizing +the arrangement of the whole speech, I seized the opportunity and went +after Ascyltos, on the run; but, as I neither held strictly to the road, +nor knew where the inn was located, wherever I went, I kept coming back +to the same place, until, worn out with running, and long since dripping +with sweat, I approached a certain little old woman who sold country +vegetables. + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p010"></a><img alt="p010.jpg (82K)" src="images/p010.jpg" height="787" width="599"></center> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>"Please, mother," I wheedled, "you don't know where I lodge, do you?" +Delighted with such humorous affability, "What's the reason I don't" she +replied, and getting upon her feet, she commenced to walk ahead of me. I +took her for a prophetess until, when presently we came to a more obscure +quarter, the affable old lady pushed aside a crazy-quilt and remarked, +"Here's where you ought to live," and when I denied that I recognized the +house, I saw some men prowling stealthily between the rows of name-boards +and naked prostitutes. Too late I realized that I had been led into a +brothel. After cursing the wiles of the little old hag, I covered my +head and commenced to run through the middle of the night-house to the +exit opposite, when, lo and behold! whom should I meet on the very +threshold but Ascyltos himself, as tired as I was, and almost dead; you +would have thought that he had been brought by the self-same little old +hag! I smiled at that, greeted him cordially, and asked him what he was +doing in such a scandalous place. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Wiping away the sweat with his hands, he replied, "If you only knew what +I have gone through!" "What was it?" I demanded. "A most respectable +looking person came up to me," he made reply, "while I was wandering all +over the town and could not find where I had left my inn, and very +graciously offered to guide me. He led me through some very dark and +crooked alleys, to this place, pulled out his tool, and commenced to beg +me to comply with his appetite. 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." (While +Ascyltos was telling me of his bad luck, who should come up again but +this same very respectable looking person, in company with a woman not at +all bad looking, and, looking at Ascyltos, he requested him to enter the +house, assuring him that there was nothing to fear, and, since he was +unwilling to take the passive part, he should have the active. The +woman, on her part, urged me very persistently to accompany her, so we +followed the couple, at last, and were conducted between the rows of +name-boards, where we saw, in cells, many persons of each sex amusing +themselves in such a manner) that it seemed to me that every one of them +must have been drinking satyrion. (On catching sight of us, they +attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with +his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down +upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. I succored the sufferer +immediately, however,) and having joined forces, we defied the +troublesome wretch. (Ascyltos ran out of the house and took to his +heels, leaving me as the object of their lewd attacks, but the crowd, +finding me the stronger in body and purpose, let me go unharmed.) + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p012"></a><img alt="p012.jpg (88K)" src="images/p012.jpg" height="901" width="565"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE NINTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>(After having tramped nearly all over the city,) I caught sight of Giton, +as though through a fog, standing at the end of the street, (on the very +threshold of the inn,) and I hastened to the same place. When I inquired +whether my "brother" had prepared anything for breakfast, the boy sat +down upon the bed and wiped away the trickling tears with his thumb. +I was greatly disturbed by such conduct on the part of my "brother," and +demanded to be told what had happened. After I had mingled threats with +entreaties, he answered slowly and against his will, "That brother or +comrade of yours rushed into the room a little while ago and commenced to +attempt my virtue by force. When I screamed, he pulled out his tool and +gritted out--If you're a Lucretia, you've found your Tarquin!" When I +heard this, I shook my fists in Ascyltos' face, "What have you to say for +yourself," I snarled, "you rutting pathic harlot, whose very breath is +infected?" Ascyltos pretended to bristle up and, shaking his fists more +boldly still, he roared: "Won't you keep quiet, you filthy gladiator, you +who escaped from the criminal's cage in the amphitheatre to which you +were condemned (for the murder of your host?) Won't you hold your +tongue, you nocturnal assassin, who, even when you swived it bravely, +never entered the lists with a decent woman in your life? Was I not a +'brother' to you in the pleasure-garden, in the same sense as that in +which this boy now is in this lodging-house?" "You sneaked away from the +master's lecture," I objected. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>"What should I have done, you triple fool, when I was +dying of hunger? I suppose I should have listened to opinions as much to +the purpose as the tinkle of broken glass or the interpretation of +dreams. By Hercules, you are much more deserving of censure than I, you +who will flatter a poet so as to get an invitation to dinner!" Then we +laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel, and approached more +peaceably whatever remained to be done. But the remembrance of that +injury recurred to my mind and, "Ascyltos," I said, "I know we shall not +be able to agree, so let us divide our little packs of common stock and +try to defeat our poverty by our individual efforts. Both you and I know +letters, but that I may not stand in the way of any undertaking of yours, +I will take up some other profession. Otherwise, a thousand trifles will +bring us into daily collision and furnish cause for gossip through the +whole town." Ascyltos made no objection to this, but merely remarked, +"As we, in our capacity of scholars, have accepted an invitation to +dinner, for this date, let us not lose our night. Since it seems to be +the graceful thing to do, I will look out for another lodging and another +'brother,' tomorrow." "Deferred pleasures are a long time coming," +I sighed. It was lust that made this separation so hasty, for I had, for +a long time, wished to be rid of a troublesome chaperon, so that I could +resume my old relations with my Giton. (Bearing this affront with +difficulty, Ascyltos rushed from the room, without uttering a word. +Such a headlong outburst augured badly, for I well knew his ungovernable +temper and his unbridled passion. On this account, I followed him out, +desirous of fathoming his designs and of preventing their consequences, +but he hid himself skillfully from my eyes, and all in vain, I searched +for him for a long time.) + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p020"></a><img alt="p020.jpg (79K)" src="images/p020.jpg" height="713" width="605"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>After having had the whole town under my eyes, I returned to the little +room and, having claimed the kisses which were mine in good faith, I +encircled the boy in the closest of embraces and enjoyed the effect of +our happy vows to a point that might be envied. Nor had all the +ceremonies been completed, when Ascyltos stole stealthily up to the +outside of the door and, violently wrenching off the bars, burst in upon +me, toying with my "brother." He filled the little room with his +laughter and hand-clapping, pulled away the cloak which covered us, "What +are you up to now, most sanctimonious 'brother'?" he jeered. "What's +going on here, a blanket-wedding?" Nor did he confine himself to words, +but, pulling the strap off his bag, he began to lash me very thoroughly, +interjecting sarcasms the while, "This is the way you would share with +your comrade, is it!" (The unexpectedness of the thing compelled me to +endure the blows in silence and to put up with the abuse, so I smiled at +my calamity, and very prudently, too, as otherwise I should have been put +to the necessity of fighting with a rival. My pretended good humor +soothed his anger, and at last, Ascyltos smiled as well. "See here, +Encolpius," he said, "are you so engrossed with your debaucheries that +you do not realize that our money is gone, and that what we have left is +of no value? In the summer, times are bad in the city. The country is +luckier, let's go and visit our friends." Necessity compelled the +approval of this plan, and the repression of any sense of injury as well, +so, loading Giton with our packs, we left the city and hastened to the +country-seat of Lycurgus, a Roman knight. Inasmuch as Ascyltos has +formerly served him in the capacity of "brother," he received us royally, +and the company there assembled, rendered our stay still more delightful. +In the first place, there was Tryphaena, a most beautiful woman, who had +come in company with Lycas, the master of a vessel and owner of estates +near the seashore. Although Lycurgus kept a frugal table, the pleasures +we enjoyed in this most enchanting spot cannot be described in words. +Of course you know that Venus joined us all up, as quickly as possible. +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p024"></a><img alt="p024.jpg (43K)" src="images/p024.jpg" height="927" width="449"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>The lovely Tryphaena pleased my taste, and listened willingly to my vows, +but hardly had I had time to enjoy her favors when Lycas, in a towering +rage because his preserves had been secretly invaded, demanded that I +indemnify him in her stead. She was an old flame of his, so he broached +the subject of a mutual exchange of favors. Burning with lust, he +pressed his suit, but Tryphaena possessed my heart, and I said Lycas nay. +By refusal, however, he was only made more ardent, followed me +everywhere, entered my room at night, and, after his entreaties had met +with contempt, he had recourse to violence against me, at which I yelled +so lustily that I aroused the entire household, and, by the help of +Lycurgus, I was delivered from the troublesome assault and escaped. At +last, perceiving that the house of Lycurgus was not suitable to the +prosecution of his design, he attempted to persuade me to seek his +hospitality, and when his suggestion was refused, he made use of +Tryphaena's influence over me. She besought me to comply with Lycas' +desires, and she did this all the more readily as by that she hoped to +gain more liberty of action. With affairs in this posture, I follow my +love, but Lycurgus, who had renewed his old relations with Ascyltos, +would not permit him to leave, so it was decided that he should remain +with Lycurgus, but that we would accompany Lycas. Nevertheless, we had +it understood among ourselves that whenever the opportunity presented +itself, we would each pilfer whatever we could lay hands upon, for the +betterment of the common stock. Lycas was highly delighted with my +acceptance of his invitation and hastened our departure, so, bidding our +friends good-bye, we arrived at his place on the very same day. Lycas +had so arranged matters that, on the journey, he sat beside me, while +Tryphaena was next to Giton, the reason for this being his knowledge +of the woman's notorious inconstancy; nor was he deceived, for she +immediately fell in love with the boy, and I easily perceived it. +In addition, Lycas took the trouble of calling my attention to the +situation, and laid stress upon the truth of what we saw. On this +account, I received his advances more graciously, at which he was +overjoyed. He was certain that contempt would be engendered from the +inconstancy of my "sister," with the result that, being piqued at +Tryphaena, I would all the more freely receive his advances. Now this +was the state of affairs at the house of Lycas, Tryphaena was desperately +in love with Giton, Giton's whole soul was aflame for her, neither of +them was a pleasing sight to my eyes, and Lycas, studying to please me, +arranged novel entertainments each day, which Doris, his lovely wife, +seconded to the best of her ability, and so gracefully that she soon +expelled Tryphaena from my heart. A wink of the eye acquainted Doris of +my passion, a coquettish glance informed me of the state of her heart, +and this silent language, anticipating the office of the tongue, secretly +expressed that longing of our souls which we had both experienced at the +same instant. The jealousy of Lycas, already well known to me, was the +cause of my silence, but love itself revealed to the wife the designs +which Lycas had upon me. At our first opportunity of exchanging +confidences, she revealed to me what she had discovered and I candidly +confessed, telling her of the coldness with which I had always met his +advances. The far-sighted woman remarked that it would be necessary for +us to use our wits. It turned out that her advice was sound, for I soon +found out that complacency to the one meant possession of the other. +Giton, in the meantime, was recruiting his exhausted strength, and +Tryphaena turned her attention to me, but, meeting with a repulse, she +flounced out in a rage. The next thing this burning harlot did was to +discover my commerce with both husband and wife. As for his wantonness +with me, she flung that aside, as by it she lost nothing, but she fell +upon the secret gratifications of Doris and made them known to Lycas, +who, his jealousy proving stronger than his lust, took steps to get +revenge. Doris, however, forewarned by Tryphaena's maid, looked out +for squalls and held aloof from any secret assignations. When I became +aware of all this, I heartily cursed the perfidy of Tryphaena and the +ungrateful soul of Lycas, and made up my mind to be gone. Fortune +favored me, as it turned out, for a vessel sacred to Isis and laden with +prize-money had, only the day before, run upon the rocks in the vicinity. +After holding a consultation with Giton, at which he gladly gave consent +to my plan, as Tryphaena visibly neglected him after having sapped his +virility, we hastened to the sea-shore early on the following morning, +and boarded the wreck, a thing easy of accomplishment as the watchmen, +who were in the pay of Lycas, knew us well. But they were so attentive +to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having +left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft +where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and +a silver sistrum. From the master's cabin, I also pilfered other +valuable trifles and, stealthily sliding down a rope, went ashore. Giton +was the only one who saw me and he evaded the watchmen and slipped away +after me. I showed him the plunder, when he joined me, and we decided +to post with all speed to Ascyltos, but we did not arrive at the home of +Lycurgus until the following day. In a few words I told Ascyltos of the +robbery, when he joined us, and of our unfortunate love-affairs as well. +He was for prepossessing the mind of Lycurgus in our favor, naming the +increasing wantonness of Lycas as the cause of our secret and sudden +change of habitation. When Lycurgus had heard everything, he swore +that he would always be a tower of strength between us and our enemies. +Until Tryphaena and Doris were awake and out of bed, our flight remained +undiscovered, for we paid them the homage of a daily attendance at the +morning toilette. When our unwonted absence was noted, Lycas sent out +runners to comb the sea-shore, for he suspected that we had been to the +wreck, but he was still unaware of the robbery, which was yet unknown +because the stern of the wreck was lying away from the beach, and the +master had not, as yet, gone back aboard. Lycas flew into a towering +rage when our flight was established for certain, and railed bitterly at +Doris, whom he considered as the moving factor in it. Of the hard words +and the beating he gave her I will say nothing, for the particulars are +not known to me, but I will affirm that Tryphaena, who was the sole cause +of the unpleasantness, persuaded Lycas to hunt for his fugitives in the +house of Lycurgus, which was our most probable sanctuary. She +volunteered to accompany him in person, so that she could load us with +the abuse which we deserved at her hands. They set out on the following +day and arrived at the estate of Lycurgus, but we were not there, for he +had taken us to a neighboring town to attend the feast of Hercules, which +was there being celebrated. As soon as they found out about this, they +hastened to take to the road and ran right into us in the portico of the +temple. At sight of them, we were greatly put out, and Lycas held forth +violently to Lycurgus, upon the subject of our flight, but he was met +with raised eyebrows and such a scowling forehead that I plucked up +courage and, in a loud voice, passed judgment upon his lewd and base +attempts and assaults upon me, not in the house of Lycurgus alone, but +even under his own roof: and as for the meddling Tryphaena, she received +her just deserts, for, at great length, I described her moral turpitude +to the crowd, our altercation had caused a mob to collect, and, to give +weight to my argument, I pointed to limber-hamed Giton, drained dry, as +it were, and to myself, reduced almost to skin and bones by the raging +lust of that nymphomaniac harlot. So humiliated were our enemies by the +guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot +revenge. As they perceived that we had prepossessed the mind of Lycurgus +in our favor, they decided to await his return, at his estate, in order +that they might wean him away from his misapprehension. As the +solemnities did not draw to a close until late at night, we could not +reach Lycurgus' country place, so he conducted us to a villa of his, +situated near the halfway point of the journey, and, leaving us to sleep +there until the next day, he set off for his estate for the purpose of +transacting some business. Upon his arrival, he found Lycas and +Tryphaena awaiting him, and they stated their case so diplomatically that +they prevailed upon him to deliver us into their hands. Lycurgus, cruel +by nature and incapable of keeping his word, was by this time striving to +hit upon the best method of betraying us, and to that end, he persuaded +Lycas to go for help, while he himself returned to the villa and had us +put under guard. To the villa he came, and greeted us with a scowl as +black as any Lycas himself had ever achieved, clenching his fists again +and again, he charged us with having lied about Lycas, and, turning +Ascyltos out, he gave orders that we were to be kept confined to the room +in which we had retired to rest. Nor would he hear a word in our +defense, from Ascyltos, but, taking the latter with him, he returned to +his estate, reiterating his orders relative to our confinement, which was +to last until his return. On the way back, Ascyltos vainly essayed to +break down Lycurgus' determination, but neither prayers nor caresses, nor +even tears could move him. Thereupon my "brother" conceived the design +of freeing us from our chains, and, antagonized by the stubbornness of +Lycurgus, he positively refused to sleep with him, and through this he +was in a better position to carry out the plan which he had thought out. +When the entire household was buried in its first sleep, Ascyltos loaded +our little packs upon his back and slipped out through a breach in the +wall, which he had previously noted, arriving at the villa with the dawn. +He gained entrance without opposition and found his way to our room, +which the guards had taken the precaution to bar. It was easy to force +an entrance, as the fastening was made of wood, which same he pried off +with a piece of iron. The fall of the lock roused us, for we were +snoring away, in spite of our unfortunate situation. On account of the +long vigil, the guard was in such a deep sleep that we alone were wakened +by the crashing fall of the lock, and Ascyltos, coming in, told us in a +few words what he had done for us; but as far as that goes, not many were +necessary. We were hurriedly dressing, when I was seized with the notion +of killing the guard and stripping the place. This plan I confided to +Ascyltos, who approved of the looting, but pointed out a more desirable +solution without bloodshed: knowing all the crooks and turns, as he did, +he led us to a store-room which he opened. We gathered up all that was +of value and sallied forth while it was yet early in the morning. +Shunning the public roads; we could not rest until we believed ourselves +safe from pursuit. Ascyltos, when he had caught his breath, gloatingly +exulted of the pleasure which the looting of a villa belonging to +Lycurgus, a superlatively avaricious man, afforded him: he complained, +with justice of his parsimony, affirming that he himself had received no +reward for his k-nightly services, that he had been kept at a dry table +and on a skimpy ration of food. This Lycurgus was so stingy that he +denied himself even the necessities of life, his immense wealth to the +contrary notwithstanding.) + +<blockquote> + +<br> The tortured Tantalus still stands, to parch in his shifting pool, + +<br> And starve, when fruit sways just beyond his grasp: + +<br> The image of the miser rich, when his avaricious soul + +<br> Robs him of food and drink, in Plenty's clasp. + +</blockquote> + +<p>(Ascyltos was for going to Naples that same day, but I protested the +imprudence of going to any place where they would be on the lookout for +us. "Let's absent ourselves, for a while, and travel in the country. We +are well supplied with means." This advice took his fancy and we set out +for a part of the country noted for the beauty of its estates, and where +not a few of our acquaintances were enjoying the sports of the season. +Scarcely had we covered half the distance, however, before it began to +pour down rain by the bucketful, compelling us to run for the nearest +village. Upon entering the inn, we noticed many other wayfarers, who had +put up there to escape the storm. The jam prevented our being watched, +and at the same time made it easier for us to pry about with curious +eyes, on the alert for something to appropriate. Ascyltos, unseen by +anyone, picked up off the ground a little pouch in which he found some +gold pieces. We were overjoyed with this auspicious beginning, but, +fearing that some one would miss the gold, we stealthily slipped out by +the back door. A slave, who was saddling a horse in the courtyard, +suddenly left his work and went into the house, as if he had forgotten +something, and while he was gone I appropriated a superb mantle which was +tied fast to the saddle, by untying the thongs, then, utilizing a row of +outbuildings for cover, we made off into the nearest wood. When we had +reached the depths of the grove, where we were in safety, we thoroughly +discussed the surest method of secreting our gold, so that we would +neither be accused of robbery nor robbed ourselves, and we finally +decided to sew it into the hem of a ragged tunic, which I threw over my +shoulders, after having turned the mantle over to Ascyltos for +safekeeping; we then made ready to start for the city via the +unfrequented roads. We were just about to emerge from the shelter of +the wood when we heard, from somewhere on our left, "They can't get away, +they came into this wood; let's spread out and beat, and they will easily +be caught!" On hearing this, we were thrown into such a terrible fright +that Ascyltos and Giton dashed away city-ward, through the underbrush, +and I retreated in such a hurry that the precious tunic slipped off my +shoulders without my knowing it. 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. Chagrin restored my strength and +I leaped to my feet to look for the treasure, and for a long time I beat +around in vain. Worn out with work and vexation, I forced my way into +the thickest part of the grove and remained there for four mortal hours, +but at last, bored to extinction by the horrible solitude, I sought a way +out. As I went ahead, I caught sight of a peasant; then I had need of +all my nerve, and it did not fail me. Marching boldly up to him, I asked +my way to the city, complaining that I had been lost in the wood for +several hours. Seeing my condition, he took pity upon me, for I was +covered with mud and paler than death, and asked me whether I had seen +anyone in the place. "Not a soul," I replied, whereupon he kindly +conducted me to the high road, where he met two of his companions, who +informed him that they had beaten along every path in the forest without +having found anything except a tunic, which they showed him. As may be +readily supposed, I did not have the audacity to claim it, though well +aware of its value, and my chagrin became almost insupportable as I +vented many a groaning curse over my lost treasure. The peasants paid +no attention to me, and I was gradually left behind, as my weakness +increased my pace decreased. For this reason, it was late when I reached +the city, and, entering the inn, beheld Ascyltos, stretched out, half +dead, upon a cot. Too far gone to utter a single syllable, I threw +myself upon another. Ascyltos became greatly excited at not seeing the +tunic which he had entrusted to me, demanding it insistently, but I was +so weak that my voice refused its office and I permitted the apathy of my +eyes to answer his demand, then, by and by, regaining my strength little +by little, I related the whole affair to Ascyltos, in every detail. He +thought that I was joking, and although my testimony was fortified by a +copious flood of tears, it could easily be seen that he remained +unconvinced, believing that I wanted to cheat him out of the gold. +Giton, who was standing by during all this, was as downcast as myself, +and the suffering of the lad only served to increase my own vexation, but +the thing which bothered me most of all, was the painstaking search which +was being made for us; I told Ascyltos of this, but he only laughed it +off, as he had so happily extricated himself from the scrape. He was +convinced that, as we were unknown and as no one had seen us, we were +perfectly safe. We decided, nevertheless, to feign sickness, and to keep +to our room as long as possible; but, before we knew it, our money ran +out, and spurred by necessity we were forced to go abroad and sell some +of our plunder.) + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Twilight was falling, as we entered the market-place, in which we noticed +a quantity of things for sale, not any of much value, it is true, but +such as could be disposed of to the best advantage when the semi-darkness +would serve to hide their doubtful origin. As we had brought our stolen +mantle, we proceeded to make use of so favorable an opportunity, and, in +a secluded spot, displayed a corner of it, hoping the splendid garment +would attract some purchaser. Nor was it long before a certain peasant, +whose face was familiar to my eyes, came up, accompanied by a young +woman, and began to examine the garment very closely. Ascyltos, in turn, +cast a glance at the shoulders of our rustic customer, and was instantly +struck dumb with astonishment. Nor could I myself look upon this man +without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had +picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, +he was! Ascyltos, afraid to believe the evidence of his own eyes for +fear of doing something rash, approached the man, as a prospective buyer, +took the hem of the tunic from the rustic's shoulders, and felt it +thoroughly. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Oh wonderful stroke of Fortune! The peasant had not yet laid his +meddling hands upon the seams, but was scornfully offering the thing for +sale, as though it had been the leavings of some beggar. When Ascyltos +had assured himself that the hoard was intact, and had taken note of the +social status of the seller, he led me a little aside from the crowd and +said, "Do you know, 'brother,' that the treasure about which I was so +worked up has come back to us? That is the little tunic, and it seems +that the gold pieces are still untouched. What ought we to do, and how +shall we make good our claim?" I was overjoyed, not so much at seeing +our booty, as I was for the reason that Fortune had released me from a +very ugly suspicion. I was opposed to doing anything by devious methods, +thinking that should he prove unwilling to restore to the proper owner an +article not his own, it ought to come to a civil action and a judgment +secured. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred, "Who knows us +here? Who will place any credence in anything we say? It seems to me +that it would be better to buy, ours though it is, and we know it, and +recover the treasure at small cost, rather than to engage in a doubtful +lawsuit." + +<blockquote> + +<br> Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, + +<br> Where Poverty can never win its cases? + +<br> Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known + +<br> To often sell the truth, and keep their faces! + +<br> So Justice is at public auction bought, + +<br> The knight gives judgement as Gold says he ought. + + +</blockquote> +<p>But, with the exception of a two-as piece with which we had intended +purchasing peas and lupines, there was nothing to hand; so, for fear our +loot should escape us in the interim, we resolved to appraise the mantle +at less, and, through a small sacrifice, secure a greater profit. +Accordingly, we spread it out, and the young woman of the covered head, +who was standing by the peasant's side, narrowly inspected the markings, +seized the hem with both hands, and screamed "Thieves!" at the top of her +voice. We were greatly disconcerted at this and, for fear that +inactivity on our part should seem to lend color to her charges, we +laid hold of the dirty ragged tunic, in our turn, and shouted with equal +spite, that this was our property which they had in their possession; but +our cases were by no means on an equality, and the hucksters who had +crowded around us at the uproar, laughed at our spiteful claim, and very +naturally, too, since one side laid claim to a very valuable mantle, +while the other demanded a rag which was not worth a good patch. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Ascyltos, when he had secured silence, adroitly put a stop to their +laughter by exclaiming, "We can see that each puts the greater value upon +his own property. Let them return our tunic to us, and take back their +mantle!" This exchange was satisfactory enough to the peasant and the +young woman, but some night-prowling shyster lawyers, who wished to get +possession of the mantle for their own profit, demanded that both +articles be deposited with them, and the judge could look into the case +on the morrow, for it would appear that the ownership of the articles was +not so much to the point as was the suspicion of robbery that attached +to both sides. The question of sequestration arose, and one of the +hucksters, I do not remember which, but he was bald, and his forehead was +covered with sebaceous wens, and he sometimes did odd jobs for the +lawyers, seized the mantle and vowed that HE would see to it that it was +produced at the proper time and place, but it was easily apparent that he +desired nothing but that the garment should be deposited with thieves, +and vanish; thinking that we would be afraid to appear as claimants for +fear of being charged with crime. As far as we were concerned, we were +as willing as he, and Fortune aided the cause of each of us, for the +peasant, infuriated at our demand that his rags be shown in public, threw +the tunic in Ascyltos' face, released us from responsibility, and +demanded that the mantle, which was the only object of litigation, be +sequestered. As we thought we had recovered our treasure, we returned +hurriedly to the inn, and fastening the door, we had a good laugh at the +shrewdness of the hucksters, and not less so at that of our enemies, for +by it they had returned our money to us. (While we were unstitching the +tunic to get at the gold pieces, we overheard some one quizzing the +innkeeper as to what kind of people those were, who had just entered his +house. Alarmed at this inquiry, I went down, when the questioner had +gone, to find out what was the matter, and learned that the praetor's +lictor, whose duty it was to see that the names of strangers were entered +in his rolls, had seen two people come into the inn, whose names were not +yet entered, and that was the reason he had made inquiry as to their +names and means of support. Mine host furnished this information in such +an offhand manner that I became suspicious as to our entire safety in his +house; so, in order to avoid arrest, we decided to go out, and not to +return home until after dark, and we sallied forth, leaving the +management of dinner to Giton. As it suited our purpose to avoid the +public streets, we strolled through the more unfrequented parts of the +city, and just at dusk we met two women in stolas, in a lonely spot, and +they were by no means homely. Walking softly, we followed them to a +temple which they entered, and from which we could hear a curious +humming, which resembled the sound of voices issuing from the depths of a +cavern. Curiosity impelled us also to enter the temple. There we caught +sight of many women, who resembled Bacchantes, each of whom brandished in +her right hand an emblem of Priapus. We were not permitted to see more, +for as their eyes fell upon us, they raised such a hubbub that the vault +of the temple trembled. They attempted to lay hands upon us, but we ran +back to our inn as fast as we could go.) + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p044"></a><img alt="p044.jpg (82K)" src="images/p044.jpg" height="831" width="573"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>We had just disposed of the supper prepared by Giton, when there came a +timid rapping at the door. We turned pale. "Who is there?" we asked. +"Open and you will find out," came the answer. While we were speaking, +the bar fell down of its own accord, the doors flew open and admitted our +visitor. She was the selfsame young lady of the covered head who had but +a little while before stood by the peasant's side. "So you thought," +said she, "that you could make a fool of me, did you? I am Quartilla's +handmaid: Quartilla, whose rites you interrupted in the shrine. She has +come to the inn, in person, and begs permission to speak with you. Don't +be alarmed! She neither blames your mistake nor does she demand +punishment; on the contrary, she wonders what god has brought such +well-bred young gentlemen into her neighborhood!" + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>We were still holding our tongues and refraining from any expression of +opinion, when the lady herself entered the room, attended by a little +girl. Seating herself upon the bed, she wept for a long time. Not even +then did we interject a single word, but waited, all attention, for what +was to follow these well ordered tears and this show of grief. When the +diplomatic thunderstorm had passed over, she withdrew her haughty head +from her mantle and, ringing her hands until the joints cracked, "What is +the meaning of such audacity?" she demanded; "where did you learn such +tricks? They are worthy of putting to shame the assurance of all the +robbers of the past! I pity you, so help me the God of Truth, I do; for +no one can look with impunity upon that which it is unlawful for him to +see. In our neighborhood, there are so many gods that it is easier to +meet one than it is to find a man! But do not think that I was actuated +by any desire for revenge when I came here: I am more moved by your age +than I am by my own injury, for it is my belief that youthful imprudence +led you into committing a sacrilegious crime. That very night, I tossed +so violently in the throes of a dangerous chill that I was afraid I had +contracted a tertian ague, and in my dreams I prayed for a medicine. I +was ordered to seek you out, and to arrest the progress of the disease by +means of an expedient to be suggested by your wonderful penetration! The +cure does not matter so much, however, for a deeper grief gnaws at my +vitals and drags me down, almost to the very doors of death itself. I am +afraid that, with the careless impulsiveness of youth, you may divulge, +to the common herd, what you witnessed in the shrine of Priapus, and +reveal the rites of the gods to the rabble. On this account, I stretch +out my suppliant hands to your knees, and beg and pray that you do not +make a mockery and a joke of our nocturnal rites, nor lay bare the +secrets of so many years, into which scarcely a thousand persons are +initiated." + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p046"></a><img alt="p046.jpg (62K)" src="images/p046.jpg" height="713" width="573"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>The tears poured forth again, after this appeal, and, shaken by deep +sobs, she buried her whole face and breast in my bed; and I, moved by +pity and by apprehension, begged her to be of good cheer and to make +herself perfectly easy as to both of those issues, for not only would we +not betray any secrets to the rabble, but we would also second divine +providence, at any peril to ourselves, if any god had indicated to her +any cure for her tertian ague. The woman cheered up at this promise, and +smothered me with kisses; from tears she passed to laughter, and fell to +running her fingers through the long hair that hung down about my ears. +"I will declare a truce with you," she said, "and withdraw my complaint. +But had you been unwilling to administer the medicine which I seek, I had +a troop in readiness for the morrow, which would have exacted +satisfaction for my injury and reparation for my dignity! + +<blockquote> + + +<br> To be flouted is disgraceful, but to dictate terms, sublime + +<br> Pleased am I to choose what course I will, + +<br> Even sages will retort an insult at the proper tune. + +<br> Victor most is he who does not kill." +</blockquote> + +<p>Then she suddenly clapped her hands, and broke into such a peal of +laughter that we were alarmed. The maid, who had been the first to +arrive, did likewise, on one side of us, as also did the little girl who +had entered with the madame herself. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>The whole place was filled with mocking laughter, and we, who could see +no reason for such a change of front, stared blankly at each other and +then at the women. (Then Quartilla spoke up, finally,) "I gave orders +that no mortal man should be admitted into this inn, this day, so that I +could receive the treatment for my ague without interruption!" Ascyltos +was, for the moment, struck dumb by this admission of Quartilla's, and I +turned colder than a Gallic winter, and could not utter a word; but the +personnel of the company relieved me from the fear that the worst might +be yet to come, for they were only three young women, too weak to attempt +any violence against us, who were of the male sex, at least, even if we +had nothing else of the man about us, and this was an asset. Then, too, +we were girded higher, and I had so arranged matters that if it came to a +fight, I would engage Quartilla myself, Ascyltos the maid, and Giton the +girl. (While I was turning over this plan in my mind, Quartilla came to +close quarters, to receive the treatment for her ague, but having her +hopes disappointed, she flounced out in a rage and, returning in a little +while, she had us overpowered by some unknown vagabonds, and gave orders +for us to be carried away to a splendid palace.) Then our determination +gave place to astonishment, and death, sure and certain, began to obscure +the eyes of suffering. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p048"></a><img alt="p048.jpg (52K)" src="images/p048.jpg" height="955" width="453"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. +</h2><br> +<p>"Pray; madame," I groaned, "if you have anything worse in store, bring it +on quickly for we have not committed a crime so heinous as to merit death +by torture." The maid, whose name was Psyche, quickly spread a blanket +upon the floor (and) sought to secure an erection by fondling my member, +which was already a thousand times colder than death. Ascyltos, well +aware by now of the danger of dipping into the secrets of others, covered +his head with his mantle. (In the meantime,) the maid took two ribbons +from her bosom and bound our feet with one and our hands with the other. +(Finding myself trussed up in this fashion, I remarked, "You will not be +able to cure your mistress' ague in this manner!" "Granted," the maid +replied, "but I have other and surer remedies at hand," she brought me a +vessel full of satyrion, as she said this, and so cheerfully did she +gossip about its virtues that I drank down nearly all of the liquor, and +because Ascyltos had but a moment before rejected her advances, she +sprinkled the dregs upon his back, without his knowing it.) When this +repartee had drawn to a close, Ascyltos exclaimed, "Don't I deserve a +drink?" Given away by my laughter, the maid clapped her hands and cried, +"I put one by you, young man; did you drink so much all by yourself?" +"What's that you say?", Quartilla chimed in. "Did Encolpius drink all +the satyrion there was in the house?" And she laughed delightfully until +her sides shook. Finally not even Giton himself could resist a smile, +especially when the little girl caught him around the neck and showered +innumerable kisses upon him, and he not at all averse to it. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p050"></a><img alt="p050.jpg (69K)" src="images/p050.jpg" height="751" width="605"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. +</h2><br> +<p>We would have cried aloud in our misery but there was no one to give us +any help, and whenever I attempted to shout, "Help! all honest +citizens," Psyche would prick my cheeks with her hairpin, and the little +girl would intimidate Ascyltos with a brush dipped in satyrion. Then a +catamite appeared, clad in a myrtle-colored frieze robe, and girded round +with a belt. One minute he nearly gored us to death with his writhing +buttocks, and the next, he befouled us so with his stinking kisses that +Quartilla, with her robe tucked high, held up her whalebone wand and +ordered him to give the unhappy wretches quarter. Both of us then took a +most solemn oath that so dread a secret should perish with us. Several +wrestling instructors appeared and refreshed us, worn out as we were, by +a massage with pure oil, and when our fatigue had abated, we again donned +our dining clothes and were escorted to the next room, in which were +placed three couches, and where all the essentials necessary to a +splendid banquet were laid out in all their richness. We took our +places, as requested, and began with a wonderful first course. We were +all but submerged in Falernian wine. When several other courses had +followed, and we were endeavoring to keep awake Quartilla exclaimed, "How +dare you think of going to sleep when you know that the vigil of Priapus +is to be kept?" + +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="p052"></a><img alt="p052.jpg (47K)" src="images/p052.jpg" height="599" width="659"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. +</h2><br> +<p>Worn out by all his troubles, Ascyltos commenced to nod, and the maid, +whom he had slighted, and of course insulted, smeared lampblack all over +his face, and painted his lips and shoulders with vermillion, while he +drowsed. Completely exhausted by so many untoward adventures, I, too, +was enjoying the shortest of naps, the whole household, within and +without, was doing the same, some were lying here and there asleep at our +feet, others leaned against the walls, and some even slept head to head +upon the threshold itself; the lamps, failing because of a lack of oil, +shed a feeble and flickering light, when two Syrians, bent upon stealing +an amphora of wine, entered the dining-room. While they were greedily +pawing among the silver, they pulled the amphora in two, upsetting the +table with all the silver plate, and a cup, which had flown pretty high, +cut the head of the maid, who was drowsing upon a couch. She screamed at +that, thereby betraying the thieves and wakening some of the drunkards. +The Syrians, who had come for plunder, seeing that they were about to be +detected, were so quick to throw themselves down besides a couch and +commence to snore as if they had been asleep for a long time, that you +would have thought they belonged there. The butler had gotten up and +poured oil in the flickering lamps by this time, and the boys, having +rubbed their eyes open, had returned to their duty, when in came a female +cymbal player and the crashing brass awoke everybody. + +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="p054"></a><img alt="p054.jpg (93K)" src="images/p054.jpg" height="735" width="551"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD. +</h2><br> +<p>The banquet began all over again, and Quartilla challenged us to a +drinking-bout, the crash of the cymbals lending ardor to her revel. +A catamite appeared, the stalest of all mankind, well worthy of that +house. Heaving a sigh, he wrung his hands until the joints cracked, +and spouted out the following verses, + +<blockquote> + + +<br>"Hither, hither quickly gather, pathic companions boon; +<br>Artfully stretch forth your limbs and on with the dance and play! +<br>Twinkling feet and supple thighs and agile buttocks in tune, +<br>Hands well skilled in raising passions, Delian eunuchs gay!" + +</blockquote> +<p>When he had finished his poetry, he slobbered a most evil-smelling kiss +upon me, and then, climbing upon my couch, he proceeded with all his +might and main to pull all of my clothing off. I resisted to the limit +of my strength. He manipulated my member for a long time, but all in +vain. Gummy streams poured down his sweating forehead, and there was so +much chalk in the wrinkles of his cheeks that you might have mistaken his +face for a roofless wall, from which the plaster was crumbling in a rain. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p056"></a><img alt="p056.jpg (47K)" src="images/p056.jpg" height="745" width="533"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. +</h2><br> +<p>Driven to the last extremity, I could no longer keep back the tears. +"Madame," I burst out, "is this the night-cap which you ordered served to +me?" Clapping her hands softly she cried out, "Oh you witty rogue, you +are a fountain of repartee, but you never knew before that a catamite was +called a k-night-cap, now did you?" Then, fearing my companion would come +off better than I, "Madame," I said, "I leave it to your sense of +fairness: is Ascyltos to be the only one in this dining-room who keeps +holiday?" "Fair enough," conceded Quartilla, "let Ascyltos have his +k-night-cap too!" On hearing that, the catamite changed mounts, and, +having bestridden my comrade, nearly drove him to distraction with his +buttocks and his kisses. Giton was standing between us and splitting his +sides with laughter when Quartilla noticed him, and actuated by the +liveliest curiosity, she asked whose boy he was, and upon my answering +that he was my "brother," "Why has he not kissed me then?" she +demanded. Calling him to her, she pressed a kiss upon his mouth, then +putting her hand beneath his robe, she took hold of his little member, as +yet so undeveloped. "This," she remarked, "shall serve me very well +tomorrow, as a whet to my appetite, but today I'll take no common fare +after choice fish!" + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. +</h2><br> +<p>She was still talking when Psyche, who was giggling, came to her side and +whispered something in her ear. What it was, I did not catch. "By all +means," ejaculated Quartilla, "a brilliant idea! Why shouldn't our +pretty little Pannychis lose her maidenhead when the opportunity is so +favorable?" A little girl, pretty enough, too, was led in at once; she +looked to be not over seven years of age, and she was the same one who +had before accompanied Quartilla to our room. Amidst universal applause, +and in response to the demands of all, they made ready to perform the +nuptial rites. I was completely out of countenance, and insisted that +such a modest boy as Giton was entirely unfitted for such a wanton part, +and moreover, that the child was not of an age at which she could receive +that which a woman must take. "Is that so," Quartilla scoffed, "is she +any younger than I was, when I submitted to my first man? Juno, my +patroness, curse me if I can remember the time when I ever was a virgin, +for I diverted myself with others of my own age, as a child then as the +years passed, I played with bigger boys, until at last I reached my +present age. I suppose that this explains the origin of the proverb, +'Who carried the calf may carry the bull,' as they say." As I feared +that Giton might run greater risk if I were absent, I got up to take +part in the ceremony. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p058"></a><img alt="p058.jpg (107K)" src="images/p058.jpg" height="939" width="653"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Psyche had already enveloped the child's head in the bridal-veil, the +catamite, holding a torch, led the long procession of drunken women which +followed; they were clapping their hands, having previously decked out +the bridal-bed with a suggestive drapery. Quartilla, spurred on by the +wantonness of the others, seized hold of Giton and drew him into the +bridal-chamber. There was no doubt of the boy's perfect willingness to +go, nor was the girl at all alarmed at the name of marriage. When they +were finally in bed, and the door shut, we seated ourselves outside the +door of the bridal-chamber, and Quartilla applied a curious eye to a +chink, purposely made, watching their childish dalliance with lascivious +attention. She then drew me gently over to her side that I might share +the spectacle with her, and when we both attempted to peep our faces were +pressed against each other; whenever she was not engrossed in the +performance, she screwed up her lips to meet mine, and pecked at me +continually with furtive kisses. [A thunderous hammering was heard at +the door, while all this was going on, and everyone wondered what this +unexpected interruption could mean, when we saw a soldier, one of the +night-watch, enter with a drawn sword in his hand, and surrounded by a +crowd of young rowdies. He glared about him with savage eyes and +blustering mien, and, catching sight of Quartilla, presently, "What's up +now, you shameless woman," he bawled; "what do you mean by making game of +me with lying promises, and cheating me out of the night you promised me? +But you won't get off unpunished You and that lover of yours are going to +find out that I'm a man!" At the soldier's orders, his companion bound +Quartilla and myself together, mouth to mouth, breast to breast, and +thigh to thigh; and not without a great deal of laughter. Then the +catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with +the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly +from, nor in any other way avoid. Finally, he ravished me, and worked +his entire pleasure upon me. In the meantime, the satyrion which I had +drunk only a little while before spurred every nerve to lust and I began +to gore Quartilla impetuously, and she, burning with the same passion, +reciprocated in the game. The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved +were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest +of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as +rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me. While +this was going on, Pannychis, unaccustomed at her tender years to the +pastime of Venus, raised an outcry and attracted the attention of the +soldier, by this unexpected howl of consternation, for this slip of a +girl was being ravished, and Giton the victor, had won a not bloodless +victory. Aroused by what he saw, the soldier rushed upon them, seizing +Pannychis, then Giton, then both of them together, in a crushing embrace. +The virgin burst into tears and plead with him to remember her age, but +her prayers availed her nothing, the soldier only being fired the more by +her childish charms. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p062"></a><img alt="p062.jpg (62K)" src="images/p062.jpg" height="987" width="433"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Pannychis covered her head at last, resolved to +endure whatever the Fates had in store for her. At this instant, an old +woman, the very same who had tricked me on that day when I was hunting +for our lodging, came to the aid of Pannychis, as though she had dropped +from the clouds. With loud cries, she rushed into the house, swearing +that a gang of footpads was prowling about the neighborhood and the +people invoked the help of "All honest men," in vain, for the members of +the night-watch were either asleep or intent upon some carouse, as they +were nowhere to be found. Greatly terrified at this, the soldier rushed +headlong from Quartilla's house. His companions followed after him, +freeing Pannychis from impending danger and relieving the rest of us from +our fear.] (I was so weary of Quartilla's lechery that I began to +meditate means of escape. I made my intentions known to Ascyltos, who, +as he wished to rid himself of the importunities of Psyche, was +delighted; had not Giton been shut up in the bridal-chamber, the plan +would have presented no difficulties, but we wished to take him with us, +and out of the way of the viciousness of these prostitutes. We were +anxiously engaged in debating this very point, when Pannychis fell out of +bed, and dragged Giton after her, by her own weight. He was not hurt, +but the girl gave her head a slight bump, and raised such a clamor that +Quartilla, in a terrible fright, rushed headlong into the room, giving us +the opportunity of making off. We did not tarry, but flew back to our +inn where,) throwing ourselves upon the bed, we passed the remainder of +the night without fear. (Sallying forth next day, we came upon two of +our kidnappers, one of whom Ascyltos savagely attacked the moment he set +eyes upon him, and, after having thrashed and seriously wounded him, +he ran to my aid against the other. He defended himself so stoutly, +however, that he wounded us both, slightly, and escaped unscathed.) The +third day had now dawned, the date set for the free dinner (at +Trimalchio's,) but battered as we were, flight seemed more to our taste +than quiet, so (we hastened to our inn and, as our wounds turned out to +be trifling, we dressed them with vinegar and oil, and went to bed. The +ruffian whom we had done for, was still lying upon the ground and we +feared detection.) Affairs were at this pass, and we were framing +melancholy excuses with which to evade the coming revel, when a slave of +Agamemnon's burst in upon our trembling conclave and said, "Don't you +know with whom your engagement is today? The exquisite Trimalchio, who +keeps a clock and a liveried bugler in his dining-room, so that he can +tell, instantly, how much of his life has run out!" Forgetting all our +troubles at that, we dressed hurriedly and ordered Giton, who had very +willingly performed his servile office, to follow us to the bath. + +<br><br> +<hr> +<br><br> +<br><br> +<br><br> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Satyricon, Vol. 1, Introduction +by Petronius Arbiter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SATYRICON, VOL. 1 *** + +***** This file should be named 5218-h.htm or 5218-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/1/5218/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Satyricon, Vol. 1, Introduction + +Author: Petronius Arbiter + +Release Date: May 20, 2004 [EBook #5218] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SATYRICON, VOL. 1 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the +file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an +entire meal of them. D.W.] + + + + + + THE SATYRICON OF + PETRONIUS ARBITER + + 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. + + +Among the difficulties which beset the path of the conscientious +translator, a sense of his own unworthiness must ever take precedence; +but another, scarcely less disconcerting, is the likelihood of +misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the author +and his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, +is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of a later +generation. + +A translation worthy of the name is as much the product of a literary +epoch as it is of the brain and labor of a scholar; and Melmouth's +version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made, as it was, at a +period when the art of English letter writing had attained its highest +excellence, may well be the despair of our twentieth century apostles of +specialization. Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass +with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of +that masterpiece? Who could rival Arthur Golding's rendering of the +Metamorphoses of Ovid, or Francis Hicke's masterly rendering of Lucian's +True History? But eternal life means endless change and in nothing is +this truth more strikingly manifest than in the growth and decadence of +living languages and in the translation of dead tongues into the ever +changing tissue of the living. Were it not for this, no translation +worthy of the name would ever stand in need of revision, except in +instances where the discovery and collation of fresh manuscripts had +improved the text. In the case of an author whose characters speak in +the argot proper to their surroundings, the necessity for revision is +even more imperative; the change in the cultured speech of a language is +a process that requires years to become pronounced, the evolution of +slang is rapid and its usage ephemeral. For example Stephen Gaselee, in +his bibliography of Petronius, calls attention to Harry Thurston Peck's +rendering of "bell um pomum" by "he's a daisy," and remarks, +appropriately enough, "that this was well enough for 1898; but we would +now be more inclined to render it 'he's a peach.'" Again, Peck renders +"illud erat vivere" by "that was life," but, in the words of our lyric +American jazz, we would be more inclined to render it "that was the +life." "But," as Professor Gaselee has said, "no rendering of this part +of the Satyricon can be final, it must always be in the slang of the +hour." + +"Some," writes the immortal translator of Rabelais, in his preface, +"have deservedly gained esteem by translating; yet not many condescend +to translate but such as cannot invent; though to do the first well, +requires often as much genius as to do the latter. I wish, reader, +thou mayest be as willing to do the author justice, as I have strove +to do him right." + +Many scholars have lamented the failure of Justus Lipsius to comment upon +Petronius or edit an edition of the Satyricon. Had he done so, he might +have gone far toward piercing the veil of darkness which enshrouds the +authorship of the work and the very age in which the composer flourished. +To me, personally, the fact that Laurence Sterne did not undertake a +version, has caused much regret. The master who delineated Tristram +Shandy's father and the intrigue between the Widow Wadman and Uncle Toby +would have drawn Trimalchio and his peers to admiration. + + W. C. F. + + + + +CONTENTS: + +PREFACE +INTRODUCTION +THE SATYRICON +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 + Introduction + I Soldiers in love + II Courtesans + III Greek love + IV Pollution + V Virginity + VI Pandars + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + +Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to +modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few +have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this +scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to +that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance +and dictator of fashion. The flashing, wit, the masterly touches which +bring out the characters with all the detail of a fine old copper +etching; the marvelous use of realism by this, its first prophet; the +sure knowledge of the perspective and background best adapted to each +episode; the racy style, so smooth, so elegant, so simple when the +educated are speaking, beguile the reader and blind him, at first, to the +many discrepancies and incoherences with which the text, as we have it, +is marred. The more one concentrates upon this author, the more apparent +these faults become and the more one regrets the lacunae in the text. +Notwithstanding numerous articles which deal with this work, some from +the pens of the most profound scholars, its author is still shrouded in +the mists of uncertainty and conjecture. He is as impersonal as +Shakespeare, as aloof as Flaubert, in the opinion of Charles Whibley, +and, it may be added, as genial as Rabelais; an enigmatic genius whose +secret will never be laid bare with the resources at our present command. +As I am not writing for scholars, I do not intend going very deeply into +the labyrinth of critical controversy which surrounds the author and the +work, but I shall deal with a few of the questions which, if properly +understood, will enhance the value of the Satyricon, and contribute, in +some degree, to a better understanding of the author. For the sake of +convenience the questions discussed in this introduction will be arranged +in the following order: + +1. The Satyricon. + +2. The Author. + a His Character. + b His Purpose in Writing. + c Time in which the Action is placed. + d Localization of the Principal Episode. + +3. Realism. + a Influence of the Satyricon upon the Literature of the World. + +4. The Forgeries. + + + +I + +THE SATYRICON. Heinsius and Scaliger derive the word from the Greek, +whence comes our English word satyr, but Casaubon, Dacier and Spanheim +derive it from the Latin 'satura,' a plate filled with different kinds +of food, and they refer to Porphyrion's 'multis et variis rebus hoc +carmen refertum est.' + +The text, as we possess it, may be divided into three divisions: the +first and last relate the adventures of Encolpius and his companions, the +second, which is a digression, describes the Dinner of Trimalchio. That +the work was originally divided into books, we had long known from +ancient glossaries, and we learn, from the title of the Traguriensian +manuscript, that the fragments therein contained are excerpts from the +fifteenth and sixteenth books. An interpolation of Fulgentius (Paris +7975) attributes to Book Fourteen the scene related in Chapter 20 of the +work as we have it, and the glossary of St. Benedict Floriacensis cites +the passage 'sed video te totum in illa haerere, quae Troiae halosin +ostendit (Chapter 89), as from Book Fifteen. As there is no reason to +suppose that the chapters intervening between the end of the Cena +(Chapter 79) and Chapter 89 are out of place, it follows that this +passage may have belonged to Book Sixteen, or even Seventeen, but that it +could not have belonged to Book Fifteen. From the interpolation of +Fulgentius we may hazard the opinion that the beginning of the fragments, +as we possess them (Chapters 1 to 26), form part of Book Fourteen. The +Dinner of Trimalchio probably formed a complete book, fifteen, and the +continuation of the adventures of Encolpius down to his meeting with +Eumolpus (end of Chapter 140) Book Sixteen. The discomfiture of Eumolpus +should have closed this book but not the entire work, as the exit of the +two principal characters is not fixed at the time our fragments come to +an end. The original work, then, would probably have exceeded Tom Jones +in length. + + + +II + +THE AUTHOR. + +a--"Not often," says Studer (Rheinisches Museum, 1843), "has there been +so much dispute about the author, the times, the character and the +purpose of a writing of antiquity as about the fragments of the Satyricon +of Petronius." The discovery and publication of the Trau manuscript +brought about a literary controversy which has had few parallels, and +which has not entirely died out to this day, although the best +authorities ascribe the work to Caius Petronius, the Arbiter Elegantiarum +at the court of Nero. "The question as to the date of the narrative of +the adventures of Encolpius and his boon companions must be regarded as +settled," says Theodor Mommsen (Hermes, 1878); "this narrative is +unsurpassed in originality and mastery of treatment among the writings of +Roman literature. Nor does anyone doubt the identity of its author and +the Arbiter Elegantiarum of Nero, whose end Tacitus relates." + +In any case, the author of this work, if it be the work of one brain, +must have been a profound psychologist, a master of realism, a +natural-born story teller, and a gentleman. + + +b--His principal object in writing the work was to amuse but, in amusing, +he also intended to pillory the aristocracy and his wit is as keen as the +point of a rapier; but, when we bear in mind the fact that he was an +ancient, we will find that his cynicism is not cruel, in him there is +none of the malignity of Aristophanes; there is rather the attitude of +the refined patrician who is always under the necessity of facing those +things which he holds most in contempt, the supreme artist who suffers +from the multitude of bill-boards, so to speak, who lashes the posters +but holds in pitying contempt those who know so little of true art that +they mistake those posters for the genuine article. Niebuhr's estimate +of his character is so just and free from prejudice, and proceeds from +a mind which, in itself, was so pure and wholesome, that I will quote it: + +"All great dramatic poets are endowed with the power of creating beings +who seem to act and speak with perfect independence, so that the poet is +nothing more than the relator of what takes place. When Goethe had +conceived Faust and Margarete, Mephistopheles and Wagner, they moved and +had their being without any exercise of his will. But in the peculiar +power which Petronius exercises, in its application to every scene, to +every individual character, in everything, noble or mean, which he +undertakes, I know of but one who is fully equal to the Roman, and that +is Diderot. Trimalchio and Agamemnon might have spoken for Petronius, +and the nephew Rameau and the parson Papin for Diderot, in every +condition and on every occasion inexhaustibly, out of their own nature; +just so the purest and noblest souls, whose kind was, after all, not +entirely extinct in their day. + +"Diderot and a contemporary, related to him in spirit, Count Gaspar +Gozzi, are marked with the same cynicism which disfigures the Roman; +their age, like his, had become shameless. But as the two former were in +their heart noble, upright, and benevolent men, and as in the writings of +Diderot genuine virtue and a tenderness unknown to his contemporaries +breathe, so the peculiarity of such a genius can, as it seems, be given +to a noble and elevated being only. The deep contempt for prevailing +immorality which naturally leads to cynicism, and a heart which beats for +everything great and glorious,--virtues which then had no existence, +--speak from the pages of the Roman in a language intelligible to every +susceptible heart." + + +e--Beck, in his paper, "The Age of Petronius Arbiter," concluded that the +author lived and wrote between the years 6 A.D. and 34 A.D., but he +overlooked the possibility that the author might have lived a few years +later, written of conditions as they were in his own times, and yet laid +the action of his novel a few years before. Mommsen and Haley place the +time under Augustus, Buecheler, about 36-7 A.D., and Friedlaender under +Nero. + + +d--La Porte du Theil places the scene at Naples because of the fact the +city in which our heroes met Agamemnon must have been of some +considerable size because neither Encolpius nor Asclytos could find their +way back to their inn, when once they had left it, because both were +tired out from tramping around in search of it and because Giton had been +so impressed with this danger that he took the precaution to mark the +pillars with chalk in order that they might not be lost a second time. +The Gulf of Naples is the only bit of coastline which fits the needs of +the novel, hence the city must be Naples. The fact that neither of the +characters knew the city proves that they had been recent arrivals, and +this furnishes a clue, vague though it is, to what may have gone before. + +Haley, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," vol. II, makes out a +very strong case for Puteoli, and his theory of the old town and the new +town is as ingenious as it is able. Haley also has Trimalchio in his +favor, as has also La Porte du Theil. "I saw the Sibyl at Cumae," says +Trimalchio. Now if the scene of the dinner is actually at Cumae this +sounds very peculiar; it might even be a gloss added by some copyist +whose knowledge was not equal to his industry. On the other hand, +suppose Trimalchio is speaking of something so commonplace in his +locality that the second term has become a generic, then the difficulty +disappears. We today, even though standing upon the very spot in Melos +where the Venus was unearthed, would still refer to her as the Venus de +Melos. Friedlaender, in bracketing Cumis, has not taken this +sufficiently into consideration. Mommsen, in an excellent paper (Hermes, +1878), has laid the scene at Cumae. His logic is almost unanswerable, +and the consensus of opinion is in favor of the latter town. + + + +III + +REALISM. Realism, as we are concerned with it, may be defined as the +literary effect produced by the marshaling of details in their exactitude +for the purpose of bringing out character. The fact that they may be +ugly and vulgar the reverse, makes not the slightest difference. The +modern realist contemplates the inanimate things which surround us with +peculiar complaisance, and it is right that he should as these things +exert upon us a constant and secret influence. The workings of the human +mind, in complex civilizations, are by no means simple; they are involved +and varied: our thoughts, our feelings, our wills, associate themselves +with an infinite number of sensations and images which play one upon the +other, and which individualize, in some measure, every action we commit, +and stamp it. The merit of our modern realists lies in the fact that +they have studied the things which surround us and our relations to them, +and thus have they been able to make their creations conform to human +experience. The ancients gave little attention to this; the man, with +them, was the important thing; the environment the unimportant. There +are, of course, exceptions; the interview between Ulysses and Nausiskaa +is probably the most striking. From the standpoint of environment, +Petronius, in the greater portion of his work, is an ancient; but one +exception there is, and it is as brilliant as it is important. The +entire episode, in which Trimalchio figures, offers an incredible +abundance of details. The descriptions are exhaustive and minute, but +the author's prime purpose was not description, it was to bring out the +characters, it was to pillory the Roman aristocracy, it was to amuse! +Cicero, in his prosecution of Verres, had shown up this aristocracy in +all its brutality and greed, it remained for the author of the Cena to +hold its absurdity up to the light of day, to lash an extravagance which, +though utterly unbridled, was yet unable to exhaust the looted +accumulations of years of political double dealing and malfeasance in +office. Trimalchio's introduction is a masterstroke, the porter at the +door is another, the effect of the wine upon the women, their jealousy +lest either's husband should seem more liberal, their appraisal of each +other's jewelry, Scintilla's remark anent the finesse of Habinnas' +servant in the mere matter of pandering, the blear-eyed and black-toothed +slave, teasing a little bitch disgustingly fat, offering her pieces of +bread and when, from sheer inability, she refuses to eat, cramming it +down her throat, the effect of the alcohol upon Trimalchio, the little +old lady girded round with a filthy apron, wearing clogs which were not +mates, dragging in a huge dog on a chain, the incomparable humor in the +passage in which Hesus, desperately seasick, sees that which makes him +believe that even worse misfortunes are in store for him: these details +are masterpieces of realism. The description of the night-prowling +shyster lawyer, whose forehead is covered with sebaceous wens, is the +very acme of propriety; our first meeting; with the poet Eumolpus is a +beautiful study in background and perspective. Nineteen centuries have +gone their way since this novel was written, but if we look about us we +will be able to recognize, under the veneer of civilization, the +originals of the Satyricon and we will find that here, in a little corner +of the Roman world, all humanity was held in miniature. Petronius must +be credited with the great merit of having introduced realism into the +novel. By an inspiration of genius, he saw that the framework of +frivolous and licentious novels could be enlarged until it took in +contemporary custom and environment. It is that which assures for him +an eminent place, not in Roman literature alone, but in the literature +of the world. + +a--INFLUENCE OF THE SATYRICON UPON LITERATURE. The vagrant heroes of +Petronius are the originals from whom directly, or indirectly, later +authors drew that inspiration which resulted in the great mass of +picaresque fiction; but, great as this is, it is not to this that the +Satyricon owes its powerful influence upon the literature of the world. +It is to the author's recognition of the importance of environment, +of the vital role of inanimate surroundings as a means for bringing out +character and imbuing his episodes and the actions of his characters with +an air of reality and with those impulses and actions which are common to +human experience, that his influence is due. By this, the Roman created +a new style of writing and inaugurated a class of literature which was +without parallel until the time of Apuleius and, in a lesser degree, of +Lucian. This class of literature, though modified essentially from age +to age, in keeping with the dictates of moral purity or bigotry, innocent +or otherwise, has come to be the very stuff of which literary success in +fiction is made. One may write a successful book without a thread of +romance; one cannot write a successful romance without some knowledge of +realism; the more intimate the knowledge the better the book, and it is +frequently to this that the failure of a novel is due, although the +critic might be at a loss to explain it. Petronius lies behind Tristram +Shandy, his influence can be detected in Smollett, and even Fielding paid +tribute to him. + + + +IV + +FORGERIES OF PETRONIUS. + +From the very nature of the writings of such an author as Petronius, it +is evident that the gaps in the text would have a marked tendency to +stimulate the curiosity of literary forgers and to tempt their sagacity, +literary or otherwise. The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and +the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes +emendandi." + +When, circa 1650, the library of the unfortunate Nicolas Cippico yielded +up the Trau fragment, the news of this discovery spread far and wide and +about twelve years later, Statileo, in response to the repeated requests +of the Venetian ambassador, Pietro Basadonna, made with his own hand a +copy of the MS., which he sent to Basadonna. The ambassador, in turn, +permitted this MS. to be printed by one Frambotti, a printer endowed with +more industry than critical acumen, and the resultant textual conflation +had much to do with the pamphlet war which followed. Had this Paduan +printer followed the explicit directions which he received, and printed +exactly what was given him much good paper might have been saved and a +very interesting chapter in the history of literary forgery would +probably never have been written. The pamphlet war did not die out until +Bleau, in 1670-71, printed his exact reproduction of the Trau manuscript +and the corrections introduced by that licentiousness of emendation of +which we have spoken. + +In October, 1690, Francois Nodot, a French soldier of fortune, a +commissary officer who combined belles lettres and philosophy with his +official duties, wrote to Charpentier, President of the Academy of +France, calling, his attention to a copy of a manuscript which he (Nodot) +possessed, and which came into his hands in the following manner: one +Du Pin, a French officer detailed to service with Austria, had been +present at the sack of Belgrade in 1688. That this Du Pin had, while +there, made the acquaintance of a certain Greek renegade, having, as a +matter of fact, stayed in the house of this renegade. The Greek's +father, a man of some learning, had by some means come into possession of +the MS., and Du Pin, in going through some of the books in the house, had +come across it. He had experienced the utmost difficulty in deciphering +the letters, and finally, driven by curiosity, had retained a copyist and +had it copied out. That this Du Pin had this copy in his house at +Frankfort, and that he had given Nodot to understand that if he (Nodot) +came to Frankfort, he would be permitted to see this copy. Owing to the +exigencies of military service, Nodot had been unable to go in person to +Frankfort, and that he had therefore availed himself of the friendly +interest and services of a certain merchant of Frankfort, who had +volunteered to find an amanuensis, have a copy made, and send it to +Nodot. This was done, and Nodot concludes his letter to Charpentier by +requesting the latter to lay the result before the Academy and ask for +their blessing and approval. These Nodotian Supplements were accepted as +authentic by the Academics of Arles and Nimes, as well as by Charpentier. +In a short time, however, the voices of scholarly skeptics began to be +heard in the land, and accurate and unbiased criticism laid bare the +fraud. The Latinity was attacked and exception taken to Silver Age +prose in which was found a French police regulation which required newly +arrived travellers to register their names in the book of a police +officer of an Italian village of the first century. Although they are +still retained in the text by some editors, this is done to give some +measure of continuity to an otherwise interrupted narrative, but they can +only serve to distort the author and obscure whatever view of him the +reader might otherwise have reached. They are generally printed between +brackets or in different type. + +In 1768 another and far abler forger saw the light of day. Jose +Marchena, a Spaniard of Jewish extraction, was destined for an +ecclesiastical career. He received an excellent education which served +to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism. In +his early youth he showed a marked preference for uncanonical pursuits +and heretical doctrines and before he had reached his thirtieth year +prudence counseled him to prevent the consequences of his heresy and +avoid the too pressing Inquisition by a timely flight into France. +He arrived there in time to throw himself into the fight for liberty, +and in 1800 we find him at Basle attached to the staff of General Moreau. +While there he is said to have amused himself and some of his cronies by +writing notes on what Davenport would have called "Forbidden Subjects," +and, as a means of publishing his erotic lucubrations, he constructed +this fragment, which brings in those topics on which he had enlarged. +He translated the fragment into French, attached his notes, and issued +the book. There is another story to the effect that he had been +reprimanded by Moreau for having written a loose song and that he +exculpated himself by assuring the general that it was but a new fragment +of Petronius which he had translated. Two days later he had the fragment +ready to prove his contention. + +This is the account given by his Spanish biographer. In his preface, +dedicated to the Army of the Rhine, he states that he found the fragment +in a manuscript of the work of St. Gennadius on the Duties of Priests, +probably of the XI Century. A close examination revealed the fact that +it was a palimpsest which, after treatment, permitted the restoration of +this fragment. It is supposed to supply the gap in Chapter 26 after the +word "verberabant." + +Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, +style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect +imitation. There is no internal evidence of forgery. If the text is +closely scrutinized it will be seen that it is composed of words and +expressions taken from various parts of the Satyricon, "and that in every +line it has exactly the Petronian turn of phrase." + +"Not only is the original edition unprocurable," to quote again from +Mr. Gaselee's invaluable bibliography, "but the reprint at Soleure +(Brussels), 1865, consisted of only 120 copies, and is hard to find. +The most accessible place for English readers is in Bohn's translation, +in which, however, only the Latin text is given; and the notes were a +most important part of the original work." + +These notes, humorously and perhaps sarcastically ascribed to Lallemand, +Sanctae Theologiae Doctor, "are six in number (all on various forms of +vice); and show great knowledge, classical and sociological, of unsavory +subjects. Now that the book is too rare to do us any harm, we may admit +that the pastiche was not only highly amusing, but showed a perverse +cleverness amounting almost to genius." + +Marchena died at Madrid in great poverty in 1821. A contemporary has +described him as being rather short and heavy set in figure, of great +frontal development, and vain beyond belief. He considered himself +invincible where women were concerned. He had a peculiar predilection +in the choice of animal pets and was an object of fear and curiosity +to the towns people. His forgery might have been completely successful +had he not acknowledged it himself within two or three years after the +publication of his brochure. The fragment will remain a permanent +tribute to the excellence of his scholarship, but it is his Ode to Christ +Crucified which has made him more generally known, and it is one of the +ironies of fate that caused this deformed giant of sarcasm to compose a +poem of such tender and touching piety. + +Very little is known about Don Joe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas, whose +connecting passages, with the exception of one which is irrelevant, are +here included. + +The learned editors of the Spanish encyclopedia naively preface their +brief sketch with the following assertion: "no tenemos noticias de su +vida." De Salas was born in 1588 and died in 1654. His edition of +Petronius was first issued in 1629 and re-issued in 1643 with a copper +plate of the Editor. The Paris edition, from which he says he supplied +certain deficiencies in the text, is unknown to bibliographers and is +supposed to be fictitious. + +To distinguish the spurious passages, as a point of interest, in the +present edition, the forgeries of Nodot are printed within round +brackets, the forgery of Marchena within square brackets, and the +additions of De Salas in italics {In this PG etext in curly brackets}. + +The work is also accompanied by a translation of the six notes, the +composition of which led Marchena to forge the fragment which first +appeared in the year 1800. These have never before been translated. + +Thanks are due Ralph Straus, Esq., and Professor Stephen Gaselee. + + + + + THE SATYRICON OF + PETRONIUS ARBITER + + +BRACKET CODE: + (Forgeries of Nodot) + [Forgeries of Marchena] + {Additions of De Salas} + DW + + +VOLUME 1.--ADVENTURES OF ENCOLPIUS AND HIS COMPANIONS + + +CHAPTER THE FIRST. + +(It has been so long; since I promised you the story of my adventures, +that I have decided to make good my word today; and, seeing that we have +thus fortunately met, not to discuss scientific matters alone, but also +to enliven our jolly conversation with witty stories. Fabricius Veiento +has already spoken very cleverly on the errors committed in the name of +religion, and shown how priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for +prophecy, boldly expound mysteries which are too often such to +themselves. But) are our rhetoricians tormented by another species of +Furies when they cry, "I received these wounds while fighting for the +public liberty; I lost this eye in your defense: give me a guide who will +lead me to my children, my limbs are hamstrung and will not hold me up!" +Even these heroics could be endured if they made easier the road to +eloquence; but as it is, their sole gain from this ferment of matter and +empty discord of words is, that when they step into the Forum, they think +they have been carried into another world. And it is my conviction that +the schools are responsible for the gross foolishness of our young men, +because, in them, they see or hear nothing at all of the affairs of +every-day life, but only pirates standing in chains upon the shore, +tyrants scribbling edicts in which sons are ordered to behead their own +fathers; responses from oracles, delivered in time of pestilence, +ordering the immolation of three or more virgins; every word a honied +drop, every period sprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. + + + + +CHAPTER THE SECOND. + +Those who are brought up on such a diet can no more attain to wisdom than +a kitchen scullion can attain to a keen sense of smell or avoid stinking +of the grease. With your indulgence, I will speak out: you--teachers +--are chiefly responsible for the decay of oratory. With your well +modulated and empty tones you have so labored for rhetorical effect that +the body of your speech has lost its vigor and died. Young men did not +learn set speeches in the days when Sophocles and Euripides were +searching for words in which to express themselves. In the days when +Pindar and the nine lyric poets feared to attempt Homeric verse there was +no private tutor to stifle budding genius. I need not cite the poets for +evidence, for I do not find that either Plato or Demosthenes was given +to this kind of exercise. A dignified and, if I may say it, a chaste, +style, is neither elaborate nor loaded with ornament; it rises supreme by +its own natural purity. This windy and high-sounding bombast, a recent +immigrant to Athens, from Asia, touched with its breath the aspiring +minds of youth, with the effect of some pestilential planet, and as soon +as the tradition of the past was broken, eloquence halted and was +stricken dumb. Since that, who has attained to the sublimity of +Thucydides, who rivalled the fame of Hyperides? Not a single poem +has glowed with a healthy color, but all of them, as though nourished +on the same diet, lacked the strength to live to old age. Painting +also suffered the same fate when the presumption of the Egyptians +"commercialized" that incomparable art. (I was holding forth along these +lines one day, when Agamemnon came up to us and scanned with a curious +eye a person to whom the audience was listening so closely.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE THIRD. + +He would not permit me to declaim longer in the portico than he himself +had sweat in the school, but exclaimed, "Your sentiments do not reflect +the public taste, young man, and you are a lover of common sense, which +is still more unusual. For that reason, I will not deceive you as to the +secrets of my profession. The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics, +are by no means to blame for these exercises. Unless they spoke in +accordance with the dictates of their young pupils, they would, as Cicero +remarks, be left alone in the schools! And, as designing parasites, when +they seek invitations to the tables of the rich, have in mind nothing +except what will, in their opinion, be most acceptable to their audience +--for in no other way can they secure their ends, save by setting snares +for the ears--so it is with the teachers of rhetoric, they might be +compared with the fisherman, who, unless he baits his hook with what he +knows is most appetizing to the little fish, may wait all day upon some +rock, without the hope of a catch." + + + + +CHAPTER THE FOURTH. + +What, then, is there to do? The parents who are unwilling to permit +their children to undergo a course of training under strict discipline, +are the ones who deserve the reproof. In the first place, everything +they possess, including the children, is devoted to ambition. Then, that +their wishes may the more quickly be realized, they drive these unripe +scholars into the forum, and the profession of eloquence, than which none +is considered nobler, devolves upon boys who are still in the act of +being born! If, however, they would permit a graded course of study to +be prescribed, in order that studious boys might ripen their minds by +diligent reading; balance their judgment by precepts of wisdom, correct +their compositions with an unsparing pen, hear at length what they ought +to imitate, and be convinced that nothing can be sublime when it is +designed to catch the fancy of boys, then the grand style of oratory +would immediately recover the weight and splendor of its majesty. Now +the boys play in the schools, the young men are laughed at in the forum, +and, a worse symptom than either, no one, in his old age, will confess +the errors he was taught in his school days. But that you may not +imagine that I disapprove of a jingle in the Lucilian manner, I will +deliver my opinions in verse,-- + + + + +CHAPTER THE FIFTH. + + "The man who emerges with fame, from the school of stern art, + + Whose mind gropes for lofty ideals, to bring them to light, + + Must first, under rigid frugality, study his part; + + Nor yearn for the courts of proud princes who frown in their might: + + Nor scheme with the riff-raf, a client in order to dine, + + Nor can he with evil companions his wit drown in wine + + Nor sit, as a hireling, applauding an actor's grimace. + + But, whether the fortress of arms-bearing Tritonis smile + + Upon him, or land which the Spartan colonials grace, + + Or home of the sirens, with poetry let him beguile + + The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring + + His fortunate soul drink its fill: Then, when later, the lore + + Of Socrates' school he has mastered, the reins let him fling, + + And brandish the weapons that mighty Demosthenes bore. + + Then, steeped in the culture and music of Greece, let his taste + + Be ripened and mellowed by all the great writers of Rome. + + At first, let him haunt not the courts; let his pages be graced + + By ringing and rhythmic effusions composed in his home + + Next, banquets and wars be his theme, sung in soul-stirring chant, + + In eloquent words such as undaunted Cicero chose. + + Come! Gird up thy soul! Inspiration will then force a vent + + And rush in a flood from a heart that is loved by the muse!" + + + + +CHAPTER THE SIXTH. + +I was listening so attentively to this speech that I did not notice the +flight of Ascyltos, and while I was pacing the gardens, engulfed in this +flood-tide of rhetoric, a large crowd of students came out upon the +portico, having, it would seem, just listened to an extemporaneous +declamation, of I know not whom, the speaker of which had taken +exceptions to the speech of Agamemnon. While, therefore, the young men +were making fun of the sentiments of this last speaker, and criticizing +the arrangement of the whole speech, I seized the opportunity and went +after Ascyltos, on the run; but, as I neither held strictly to the road, +nor knew where the inn was located, wherever I went, I kept coming back +to the same place, until, worn out with running, and long since dripping +with sweat, I approached a certain little old woman who sold country +vegetables. + + + + +CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. + +"Please, mother," I wheedled, "you don't know where I lodge, do you?" +Delighted with such humorous affability, "What's the reason I don't" she +replied, and getting upon her feet, she commenced to walk ahead of me. I +took her for a prophetess until, when presently we came to a more obscure +quarter, the affable old lady pushed aside a crazy-quilt and remarked, +"Here's where you ought to live," and when I denied that I recognized the +house, I saw some men prowling stealthily between the rows of name-boards +and naked prostitutes. Too late I realized that I had been led into a +brothel. After cursing the wiles of the little old hag, I covered my +head and commenced to run through the middle of the night-house to the +exit opposite, when, lo and behold! whom should I meet on the very +threshold but Ascyltos himself, as tired as I was, and almost dead; you +would have thought that he had been brought by the self-same little old +hag! I smiled at that, greeted him cordially, and asked him what he was +doing in such a scandalous place. + + + + +CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. + +Wiping away the sweat with his hands, he replied, "If you only knew what +I have gone through!" "What was it?" I demanded. "A most respectable +looking person came up to me," he made reply, "while I was wandering all +over the town and could not find where I had left my inn, and very +graciously offered to guide me. He led me through some very dark and +crooked alleys, to this place, pulled out his tool, and commenced to beg +me to comply with his appetite. 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." (While +Ascyltos was telling me of his bad luck, who should come up again but +this same very respectable looking person, in company with a woman not at +all bad looking, and, looking at Ascyltos, he requested him to enter the +house, assuring him that there was nothing to fear, and, since he was +unwilling to take the passive part, he should have the active. The +woman, on her part, urged me very persistently to accompany her, so we +followed the couple, at last, and were conducted between the rows of +name-boards, where we saw, in cells, many persons of each sex amusing +themselves in such a manner) that it seemed to me that every one of them +must have been drinking satyrion. (On catching sight of us, they +attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with +his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down +upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. I succored the sufferer +immediately, however,) and having joined forces, we defied the +troublesome wretch. (Ascyltos ran out of the house and took to his +heels, leaving me as the object of their lewd attacks, but the crowd, +finding me the stronger in body and purpose, let me go unharmed.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE NINTH. + +(After having tramped nearly all over the city,) I caught sight of Giton, +as though through a fog, standing at the end of the street, (on the very +threshold of the inn,) and I hastened to the same place. When I inquired +whether my "brother" had prepared anything for breakfast, the boy sat +down upon the bed and wiped away the trickling tears with his thumb. +I was greatly disturbed by such conduct on the part of my "brother," and +demanded to be told what had happened. After I had mingled threats with +entreaties, he answered slowly and against his will, "That brother or +comrade of yours rushed into the room a little while ago and commenced to +attempt my virtue by force. When I screamed, he pulled out his tool and +gritted out--If you're a Lucretia, you've found your Tarquin!" When I +heard this, I shook my fists in Ascyltos' face, "What have you to say for +yourself," I snarled, "you rutting pathic harlot, whose very breath is +infected?" Ascyltos pretended to bristle up and, shaking his fists more +boldly still, he roared: "Won't you keep quiet, you filthy gladiator, you +who escaped from the criminal's cage in the amphitheatre to which you +were condemned (for the murder of your host?) Won't you hold your +tongue, you nocturnal assassin, who, even when you swived it bravely, +never entered the lists with a decent woman in your life? Was I not a +'brother' to you in the pleasure-garden, in the same sense as that in +which this boy now is in this lodging-house?" "You sneaked away from the +master's lecture," I objected. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TENTH. "What should I have done, you triple fool, when I was +dying of hunger? I suppose I should have listened to opinions as much to +the purpose as the tinkle of broken glass or the interpretation of +dreams. By Hercules, you are much more deserving of censure than I, you +who will flatter a poet so as to get an invitation to dinner!" Then we +laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel, and approached more +peaceably whatever remained to be done. But the remembrance of that +injury recurred to my mind and, "Ascyltos," I said, "I know we shall not +be able to agree, so let us divide our little packs of common stock and +try to defeat our poverty by our individual efforts. Both you and I know +letters, but that I may not stand in the way of any undertaking of yours, +I will take up some other profession. Otherwise, a thousand trifles will +bring us into daily collision and furnish cause for gossip through the +whole town." Ascyltos made no objection to this, but merely remarked, +"As we, in our capacity of scholars, have accepted an invitation to +dinner, for this date, let us not lose our night. Since it seems to be +the graceful thing to do, I will look out for another lodging and another +'brother,' tomorrow." "Deferred pleasures are a long time coming," +I sighed. It was lust that made this separation so hasty, for I had, for +a long time, wished to be rid of a troublesome chaperon, so that I could +resume my old relations with my Giton. (Bearing this affront with +difficulty, Ascyltos rushed from the room, without uttering a word. +Such a headlong outburst augured badly, for I well knew his ungovernable +temper and his unbridled passion. On this account, I followed him out, +desirous of fathoming his designs and of preventing their consequences, +but he hid himself skillfully from my eyes, and all in vain, I searched +for him for a long time.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. + +After having had the whole town under my eyes, I returned to the little +room and, having claimed the kisses which were mine in good faith, I +encircled the boy in the closest of embraces and enjoyed the effect of +our happy vows to a point that might be envied. Nor had all the +ceremonies been completed, when Ascyltos stole stealthily up to the +outside of the door and, violently wrenching off the bars, burst in upon +me, toying with my "brother." He filled the little room with his +laughter and hand-clapping, pulled away the cloak which covered us, "What +are you up to now, most sanctimonious 'brother'?" he jeered. "What's +going on here, a blanket-wedding?" Nor did he confine himself to words, +but, pulling the strap off his bag, he began to lash me very thoroughly, +interjecting sarcasms the while, "This is the way you would share with +your comrade, is it!" (The unexpectedness of the thing compelled me to +endure the blows in silence and to put up with the abuse, so I smiled at +my calamity, and very prudently, too, as otherwise I should have been put +to the necessity of fighting with a rival. My pretended good humor +soothed his anger, and at last, Ascyltos smiled as well. "See here, +Encolpius," he said, "are you so engrossed with your debaucheries that +you do not realize that our money is gone, and that what we have left is +of no value? In the summer, times are bad in the city. The country is +luckier, let's go and visit our friends." Necessity compelled the +approval of this plan, and the repression of any sense of injury as well, +so, loading Giton with our packs, we left the city and hastened to the +country-seat of Lycurgus, a Roman knight. Inasmuch as Ascyltos has +formerly served him in the capacity of "brother," he received us royally, +and the company there assembled, rendered our stay still more delightful. +In the first place, there was Tryphaena, a most beautiful woman, who had +come in company with Lycas, the master of a vessel and owner of estates +near the seashore. Although Lycurgus kept a frugal table, the pleasures +we enjoyed in this most enchanting spot cannot be described in words. +Of course you know that Venus joined us all up, as quickly as possible. +The lovely Tryphaena pleased my taste, and listened willingly to my vows, +but hardly had I had time to enjoy her favors when Lycas, in a towering +rage because his preserves had been secretly invaded, demanded that I +indemnify him in her stead. She was an old flame of his, so he broached +the subject of a mutual exchange of favors. Burning with lust, he +pressed his suit, but Tryphaena possessed my heart, and I said Lycas nay. +By refusal, however, he was only made more ardent, followed me +everywhere, entered my room at night, and, after his entreaties had met +with contempt, he had recourse to violence against me, at which I yelled +so lustily that I aroused the entire household, and, by the help of +Lycurgus, I was delivered from the troublesome assault and escaped. At +last, perceiving that the house of Lycurgus was not suitable to the +prosecution of his design, he attempted to persuade me to seek his +hospitality, and when his suggestion was refused, he made use of +Tryphaena's influence over me. She besought me to comply with Lycas' +desires, and she did this all the more readily as by that she hoped to +gain more liberty of action. With affairs in this posture, I follow my +love, but Lycurgus, who had renewed his old relations with Ascyltos, +would not permit him to leave, so it was decided that he should remain +with Lycurgus, but that we would accompany Lycas. Nevertheless, we had +it understood among ourselves that whenever the opportunity presented +itself, we would each pilfer whatever we could lay hands upon, for the +betterment of the common stock. Lycas was highly delighted with my +acceptance of his invitation and hastened our departure, so, bidding our +friends good-bye, we arrived at his place on the very same day. Lycas +had so arranged matters that, on the journey, he sat beside me, while +Tryphaena was next to Giton, the reason for this being his knowledge +of the woman's notorious inconstancy; nor was he deceived, for she +immediately fell in love with the boy, and I easily perceived it. +In addition, Lycas took the trouble of calling my attention to the +situation, and laid stress upon the truth of what we saw. On this +account, I received his advances more graciously, at which he was +overjoyed. He was certain that contempt would be engendered from the +inconstancy of my "sister," with the result that, being piqued at +Tryphaena, I would all the more freely receive his advances. Now this +was the state of affairs at the house of Lycas, Tryphaena was desperately +in love with Giton, Giton's whole soul was aflame for her, neither of +them was a pleasing sight to my eyes, and Lycas, studying to please me, +arranged novel entertainments each day, which Doris, his lovely wife, +seconded to the best of her ability, and so gracefully that she soon +expelled Tryphaena from my heart. A wink of the eye acquainted Doris of +my passion, a coquettish glance informed me of the state of her heart, +and this silent language, anticipating the office of the tongue, secretly +expressed that longing of our souls which we had both experienced at the +same instant. The jealousy of Lycas, already well known to me, was the +cause of my silence, but love itself revealed to the wife the designs +which Lycas had upon me. At our first opportunity of exchanging +confidences, she revealed to me what she had discovered and I candidly +confessed, telling her of the coldness with which I had always met his +advances. The far-sighted woman remarked that it would be necessary for +us to use our wits. It turned out that her advice was sound, for I soon +found out that complacency to the one meant possession of the other. +Giton, in the meantime, was recruiting his exhausted strength, and +Tryphaena turned her attention to me, but, meeting with a repulse, she +flounced out in a rage. The next thing this burning harlot did was to +discover my commerce with both husband and wife. As for his wantonness +with me, she flung that aside, as by it she lost nothing, but she fell +upon the secret gratifications of Doris and made them known to Lycas, +who, his jealousy proving stronger than his lust, took steps to get +revenge. Doris, however, forewarned by Tryphaena's maid, looked out +for squalls and held aloof from any secret assignations. When I became +aware of all this, I heartily cursed the perfidy of Tryphaena and the +ungrateful soul of Lycas, and made up my mind to be gone. Fortune +favored me, as it turned out, for a vessel sacred to Isis and laden with +prize-money had, only the day before, run upon the rocks in the vicinity. +After holding a consultation with Giton, at which he gladly gave consent +to my plan, as Tryphaena visibly neglected him after having sapped his +virility, we hastened to the sea-shore early on the following morning, +and boarded the wreck, a thing easy of accomplishment as the watchmen, +who were in the pay of Lycas, knew us well. But they were so attentive +to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having +left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft +where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and +a silver sistrum. From the master's cabin, I also pilfered other +valuable trifles and, stealthily sliding down a rope, went ashore. Giton +was the only one who saw me and he evaded the watchmen and slipped away +after me. I showed him the plunder, when he joined me, and we decided +to post with all speed to Ascyltos, but we did not arrive at the home of +Lycurgus until the following day. In a few words I told Ascyltos of the +robbery, when he joined us, and of our unfortunate love-affairs as well. +He was for prepossessing the mind of Lycurgus in our favor, naming the +increasing wantonness of Lycas as the cause of our secret and sudden +change of habitation. When Lycurgus had heard everything, he swore +that he would always be a tower of strength between us and our enemies. +Until Tryphaena and Doris were awake and out of bed, our flight remained +undiscovered, for we paid them the homage of a daily attendance at the +morning toilette. When our unwonted absence was noted, Lycas sent out +runners to comb the sea-shore, for he suspected that we had been to the +wreck, but he was still unaware of the robbery, which was yet unknown +because the stern of the wreck was lying away from the beach, and the +master had not, as yet, gone back aboard. Lycas flew into a towering +rage when our flight was established for certain, and railed bitterly at +Doris, whom he considered as the moving factor in it. Of the hard words +and the beating he gave her I will say nothing, for the particulars are +not known to me, but I will affirm that Tryphaena, who was the sole cause +of the unpleasantness, persuaded Lycas to hunt for his fugitives in the +house of Lycurgus, which was our most probable sanctuary. She +volunteered to accompany him in person, so that she could load us with +the abuse which we deserved at her hands. They set out on the following +day and arrived at the estate of Lycurgus, but we were not there, for he +had taken us to a neighboring town to attend the feast of Hercules, which +was there being celebrated. As soon as they found out about this, they +hastened to take to the road and ran right into us in the portico of the +temple. At sight of them, we were greatly put out, and Lycas held forth +violently to Lycurgus, upon the subject of our flight, but he was met +with raised eyebrows and such a scowling forehead that I plucked up +courage and, in a loud voice, passed judgment upon his lewd and base +attempts and assaults upon me, not in the house of Lycurgus alone, but +even under his own roof: and as for the meddling Tryphaena, she received +her just deserts, for, at great length, I described her moral turpitude +to the crowd, our altercation had caused a mob to collect, and, to give +weight to my argument, I pointed to limber-hamed Giton, drained dry, as +it were, and to myself, reduced almost to skin and bones by the raging +lust of that nymphomaniac harlot. So humiliated were our enemies by the +guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot +revenge. As they perceived that we had prepossessed the mind of Lycurgus +in our favor, they decided to await his return, at his estate, in order +that they might wean him away from his misapprehension. As the +solemnities did not draw to a close until late at night, we could not +reach Lycurgus' country place, so he conducted us to a villa of his, +situated near the halfway point of the journey, and, leaving us to sleep +there until the next day, he set off for his estate for the purpose of +transacting some business. Upon his arrival, he found Lycas and +Tryphaena awaiting him, and they stated their case so diplomatically that +they prevailed upon him to deliver us into their hands. Lycurgus, cruel +by nature and incapable of keeping his word, was by this time striving to +hit upon the best method of betraying us, and to that end, he persuaded +Lycas to go for help, while he himself returned to the villa and had us +put under guard. To the villa he came, and greeted us with a scowl as +black as any Lycas himself had ever achieved, clenching his fists again +and again, he charged us with having lied about Lycas, and, turning +Ascyltos out, he gave orders that we were to be kept confined to the room +in which we had retired to rest. Nor would he hear a word in our +defense, from Ascyltos, but, taking the latter with him, he returned to +his estate, reiterating his orders relative to our confinement, which was +to last until his return. On the way back, Ascyltos vainly essayed to +break down Lycurgus' determination, but neither prayers nor caresses, nor +even tears could move him. Thereupon my "brother" conceived the design +of freeing us from our chains, and, antagonized by the stubbornness of +Lycurgus, he positively refused to sleep with him, and through this he +was in a better position to carry out the plan which he had thought out. +When the entire household was buried in its first sleep, Ascyltos loaded +our little packs upon his back and slipped out through a breach in the +wall, which he had previously noted, arriving at the villa with the dawn. +He gained entrance without opposition and found his way to our room, +which the guards had taken the precaution to bar. It was easy to force +an entrance, as the fastening was made of wood, which same he pried off +with a piece of iron. The fall of the lock roused us, for we were +snoring away, in spite of our unfortunate situation. On account of the +long vigil, the guard was in such a deep sleep that we alone were wakened +by the crashing fall of the lock, and Ascyltos, coming in, told us in a +few words what he had done for us; but as far as that goes, not many were +necessary. We were hurriedly dressing, when I was seized with the notion +of killing the guard and stripping the place. This plan I confided to +Ascyltos, who approved of the looting, but pointed out a more desirable +solution without bloodshed: knowing all the crooks and turns, as he did, +he led us to a store-room which he opened. We gathered up all that was +of value and sallied forth while it was yet early in the morning. +Shunning the public roads; we could not rest until we believed ourselves +safe from pursuit. Ascyltos, when he had caught his breath, gloatingly +exulted of the pleasure which the looting of a villa belonging to +Lycurgus, a superlatively avaricious man, afforded him: he complained, +with justice of his parsimony, affirming that he himself had received no +reward for his k-nightly services, that he had been kept at a dry table +and on a skimpy ration of food. This Lycurgus was so stingy that he +denied himself even the necessities of life, his immense wealth to the +contrary notwithstanding.) + + The tortured Tantalus still stands, to parch in his shifting pool, + + And starve, when fruit sways just beyond his grasp: + + The image of the miser rich, when his avaricious soul + + Robs him of food and drink, in Plenty's clasp. + +(Ascyltos was for going to Naples that same day, but I protested the +imprudence of going to any place where they would be on the lookout for +us. "Let's absent ourselves, for a while, and travel in the country. We +are well supplied with means." This advice took his fancy and we set out +for a part of the country noted for the beauty of its estates, and where +not a few of our acquaintances were enjoying the sports of the season. +Scarcely had we covered half the distance, however, before it began to +pour down rain by the bucketful, compelling us to run for the nearest +village. Upon entering the inn, we noticed many other wayfarers, who had +put up there to escape the storm. The jam prevented our being watched, +and at the same time made it easier for us to pry about with curious +eyes, on the alert for something to appropriate. Ascyltos, unseen by +anyone, picked up off the ground a little pouch in which he found some +gold pieces. We were overjoyed with this auspicious beginning, but, +fearing that some one would miss the gold, we stealthily slipped out by +the back door. A slave, who was saddling a horse in the courtyard, +suddenly left his work and went into the house, as if he had forgotten +something, and while he was gone I appropriated a superb mantle which was +tied fast to the saddle, by untying the thongs, then, utilizing a row of +outbuildings for cover, we made off into the nearest wood. When we had +reached the depths of the grove, where we were in safety, we thoroughly +discussed the surest method of secreting our gold, so that we would +neither be accused of robbery nor robbed ourselves, and we finally +decided to sew it into the hem of a ragged tunic, which I threw over my +shoulders, after having turned the mantle over to Ascyltos for +safekeeping; we then made ready to start for the city via the +unfrequented roads. We were just about to emerge from the shelter of +the wood when we heard, from somewhere on our left, "They can't get away, +they came into this wood; let's spread out and beat, and they will easily +be caught!" On hearing this, we were thrown into such a terrible fright +that Ascyltos and Giton dashed away city-ward, through the underbrush, +and I retreated in such a hurry that the precious tunic slipped off my +shoulders without my knowing it. 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. Chagrin restored my strength and +I leaped to my feet to look for the treasure, and for a long time I beat +around in vain. Worn out with work and vexation, I forced my way into +the thickest part of the grove and remained there for four mortal hours, +but at last, bored to extinction by the horrible solitude, I sought a way +out. As I went ahead, I caught sight of a peasant; then I had need of +all my nerve, and it did not fail me. Marching boldly up to him, I asked +my way to the city, complaining that I had been lost in the wood for +several hours. Seeing my condition, he took pity upon me, for I was +covered with mud and paler than death, and asked me whether I had seen +anyone in the place. "Not a soul," I replied, whereupon he kindly +conducted me to the high road, where he met two of his companions, who +informed him that they had beaten along every path in the forest without +having found anything except a tunic, which they showed him. As may be +readily supposed, I did not have the audacity to claim it, though well +aware of its value, and my chagrin became almost insupportable as I +vented many a groaning curse over my lost treasure. The peasants paid +no attention to me, and I was gradually left behind, as my weakness +increased my pace decreased. For this reason, it was late when I reached +the city, and, entering the inn, beheld Ascyltos, stretched out, half +dead, upon a cot. Too far gone to utter a single syllable, I threw +myself upon another. Ascyltos became greatly excited at not seeing the +tunic which he had entrusted to me, demanding it insistently, but I was +so weak that my voice refused its office and I permitted the apathy of my +eyes to answer his demand, then, by and by, regaining my strength little +by little, I related the whole affair to Ascyltos, in every detail. He +thought that I was joking, and although my testimony was fortified by a +copious flood of tears, it could easily be seen that he remained +unconvinced, believing that I wanted to cheat him out of the gold. +Giton, who was standing by during all this, was as downcast as myself, +and the suffering of the lad only served to increase my own vexation, but +the thing which bothered me most of all, was the painstaking search which +was being made for us; I told Ascyltos of this, but he only laughed it +off, as he had so happily extricated himself from the scrape. He was +convinced that, as we were unknown and as no one had seen us, we were +perfectly safe. We decided, nevertheless, to feign sickness, and to keep +to our room as long as possible; but, before we knew it, our money ran +out, and spurred by necessity we were forced to go abroad and sell some +of our plunder.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. + +Twilight was falling, as we entered the market-place, in which we noticed +a quantity of things for sale, not any of much value, it is true, but +such as could be disposed of to the best advantage when the semi-darkness +would serve to hide their doubtful origin. As we had brought our stolen +mantle, we proceeded to make use of so favorable an opportunity, and, in +a secluded spot, displayed a corner of it, hoping the splendid garment +would attract some purchaser. Nor was it long before a certain peasant, +whose face was familiar to my eyes, came up, accompanied by a young +woman, and began to examine the garment very closely. Ascyltos, in turn, +cast a glance at the shoulders of our rustic customer, and was instantly +struck dumb with astonishment. Nor could I myself look upon this man +without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had +picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, +he was! Ascyltos, afraid to believe the evidence of his own eyes for +fear of doing something rash, approached the man, as a prospective buyer, +took the hem of the tunic from the rustic's shoulders, and felt it +thoroughly. + + + + +CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. + +Oh wonderful stroke of Fortune! The peasant had not yet laid his +meddling hands upon the seams, but was scornfully offering the thing for +sale, as though it had been the leavings of some beggar. When Ascyltos +had assured himself that the hoard was intact, and had taken note of the +social status of the seller, he led me a little aside from the crowd and +said, "Do you know, 'brother,' that the treasure about which I was so +worked up has come back to us? That is the little tunic, and it seems +that the gold pieces are still untouched. What ought we to do, and how +shall we make good our claim?" I was overjoyed, not so much at seeing +our booty, as I was for the reason that Fortune had released me from a +very ugly suspicion. I was opposed to doing anything by devious methods, +thinking that should he prove unwilling to restore to the proper owner an +article not his own, it ought to come to a civil action and a judgment +secured. + + + + +CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. + +Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred, "Who knows us +here? Who will place any credence in anything we say? It seems to me +that it would be better to buy, ours though it is, and we know it, and +recover the treasure at small cost, rather than to engage in a doubtful +lawsuit." + + Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, + + Where Poverty can never win its cases? + + Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known + + To often sell the truth, and keep their faces! + + So Justice is at public auction bought, + + The knight gives judgement as Gold says he ought. + +But, with the exception of a two-as piece with which we had intended +purchasing peas and lupines, there was nothing to hand; so, for fear our +loot should escape us in the interim, we resolved to appraise the mantle +at less, and, through a small sacrifice, secure a greater profit. +Accordingly, we spread it out, and the young woman of the covered head, +who was standing by the peasant's side, narrowly inspected the markings, +seized the hem with both hands, and screamed "Thieves!" at the top of her +voice. We were greatly disconcerted at this and, for fear that +inactivity on our part should seem to lend color to her charges, we +laid hold of the dirty ragged tunic, in our turn, and shouted with equal +spite, that this was our property which they had in their possession; but +our cases were by no means on an equality, and the hucksters who had +crowded around us at the uproar, laughed at our spiteful claim, and very +naturally, too, since one side laid claim to a very valuable mantle, +while the other demanded a rag which was not worth a good patch. + + + + +CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. + +Ascyltos, when he had secured silence, adroitly put a stop to their +laughter by exclaiming, "We can see that each puts the greater value upon +his own property. Let them return our tunic to us, and take back their +mantle!" This exchange was satisfactory enough to the peasant and the +young woman, but some night-prowling shyster lawyers, who wished to get +possession of the mantle for their own profit, demanded that both +articles be deposited with them, and the judge could look into the case +on the morrow, for it would appear that the ownership of the articles was +not so much to the point as was the suspicion of robbery that attached +to both sides. The question of sequestration arose, and one of the +hucksters, I do not remember which, but he was bald, and his forehead was +covered with sebaceous wens, and he sometimes did odd jobs for the +lawyers, seized the mantle and vowed that HE would see to it that it was +produced at the proper time and place, but it was easily apparent that he +desired nothing but that the garment should be deposited with thieves, +and vanish; thinking that we would be afraid to appear as claimants for +fear of being charged with crime. As far as we were concerned, we were +as willing as he, and Fortune aided the cause of each of us, for the +peasant, infuriated at our demand that his rags be shown in public, threw +the tunic in Ascyltos' face, released us from responsibility, and +demanded that the mantle, which was the only object of litigation, be +sequestered. As we thought we had recovered our treasure, we returned +hurriedly to the inn, and fastening the door, we had a good laugh at the +shrewdness of the hucksters, and not less so at that of our enemies, for +by it they had returned our money to us. (While we were unstitching the +tunic to get at the gold pieces, we overheard some one quizzing the +innkeeper as to what kind of people those were, who had just entered his +house. Alarmed at this inquiry, I went down, when the questioner had +gone, to find out what was the matter, and learned that the praetor's +lictor, whose duty it was to see that the names of strangers were entered +in his rolls, had seen two people come into the inn, whose names were not +yet entered, and that was the reason he had made inquiry as to their +names and means of support. Mine host furnished this information in such +an offhand manner that I became suspicious as to our entire safety in his +house; so, in order to avoid arrest, we decided to go out, and not to +return home until after dark, and we sallied forth, leaving the +management of dinner to Giton. As it suited our purpose to avoid the +public streets, we strolled through the more unfrequented parts of the +city, and just at dusk we met two women in stolas, in a lonely spot, and +they were by no means homely. Walking softly, we followed them to a +temple which they entered, and from which we could hear a curious +humming, which resembled the sound of voices issuing from the depths of a +cavern. Curiosity impelled us also to enter the temple. There we caught +sight of many women, who resembled Bacchantes, each of whom brandished in +her right hand an emblem of Priapus. We were not permitted to see more, +for as their eyes fell upon us, they raised such a hubbub that the vault +of the temple trembled. They attempted to lay hands upon us, but we ran +back to our inn as fast as we could go.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. + +We had just disposed of the supper prepared by Giton, when there came a +timid rapping at the door. We turned pale. "Who is there?" we asked. +"Open and you will find out," came the answer. While we were speaking, +the bar fell down of its own accord, the doors flew open and admitted our +visitor. She was the selfsame young lady of the covered head who had but +a little while before stood by the peasant's side. "So you thought," +said she, "that you could make a fool of me, did you? I am Quartilla's +handmaid: Quartilla, whose rites you interrupted in the shrine. She has +come to the inn, in person, and begs permission to speak with you. Don't +be alarmed! She neither blames your mistake nor does she demand +punishment; on the contrary, she wonders what god has brought such +well-bred young gentlemen into her neighborhood!" + + + + +CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. + +We were still holding our tongues and refraining from any expression of +opinion, when the lady herself entered the room, attended by a little +girl. Seating herself upon the bed, she wept for a long time. Not even +then did we interject a single word, but waited, all attention, for what +was to follow these well ordered tears and this show of grief. When the +diplomatic thunderstorm had passed over, she withdrew her haughty head +from her mantle and, ringing her hands until the joints cracked, "What is +the meaning of such audacity?" she demanded; "where did you learn such +tricks? They are worthy of putting to shame the assurance of all the +robbers of the past! I pity you, so help me the God of Truth, I do; for +no one can look with impunity upon that which it is unlawful for him to +see. In our neighborhood, there are so many gods that it is easier to +meet one than it is to find a man! But do not think that I was actuated +by any desire for revenge when I came here: I am more moved by your age +than I am by my own injury, for it is my belief that youthful imprudence +led you into committing a sacrilegious crime. That very night, I tossed +so violently in the throes of a dangerous chill that I was afraid I had +contracted a tertian ague, and in my dreams I prayed for a medicine. I +was ordered to seek you out, and to arrest the progress of the disease by +means of an expedient to be suggested by your wonderful penetration! The +cure does not matter so much, however, for a deeper grief gnaws at my +vitals and drags me down, almost to the very doors of death itself. I am +afraid that, with the careless impulsiveness of youth, you may divulge, +to the common herd, what you witnessed in the shrine of Priapus, and +reveal the rites of the gods to the rabble. On this account, I stretch +out my suppliant hands to your knees, and beg and pray that you do not +make a mockery and a joke of our nocturnal rites, nor lay bare the +secrets of so many years, into which scarcely a thousand persons are +initiated." + + + + +CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. + +The tears poured forth again, after this appeal, and, shaken by deep +sobs, she buried her whole face and breast in my bed; and I, moved by +pity and by apprehension, begged her to be of good cheer and to make +herself perfectly easy as to both of those issues, for not only would we +not betray any secrets to the rabble, but we would also second divine +providence, at any peril to ourselves, if any god had indicated to her +any cure for her tertian ague. The woman cheered up at this promise, and +smothered me with kisses; from tears she passed to laughter, and fell to +running her fingers through the long hair that hung down about my ears. +"I will declare a truce with you," she said, "and withdraw my complaint. +But had you been unwilling to administer the medicine which I seek, I had +a troop in readiness for the morrow, which would have exacted +satisfaction for my injury and reparation for my dignity! + + To be flouted is disgraceful, but to dictate terms, sublime + + Pleased am I to choose what course I will, + + Even sages will retort an insult at the proper tune. + + Victor most is he who does not kill." + +Then she suddenly clapped her hands, and broke into such a peal of +laughter that we were alarmed. The maid, who had been the first to +arrive, did likewise, on one side of us, as also did the little girl who +had entered with the madame herself. + + + + +CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. + +The whole place was filled with mocking laughter, and we, who could see +no reason for such a change of front, stared blankly at each other and +then at the women. (Then Quartilla spoke up, finally,) "I gave orders +that no mortal man should be admitted into this inn, this day, so that I +could receive the treatment for my ague without interruption!" Ascyltos +was, for the moment, struck dumb by this admission of Quartilla's, and I +turned colder than a Gallic winter, and could not utter a word; but the +personnel of the company relieved me from the fear that the worst might +be yet to come, for they were only three young women, too weak to attempt +any violence against us, who were of the male sex, at least, even if we +had nothing else of the man about us, and this was an asset. Then, too, +we were girded higher, and I had so arranged matters that if it came to a +fight, I would engage Quartilla myself, Ascyltos the maid, and Giton the +girl. (While I was turning over this plan in my mind, Quartilla came to +close quarters, to receive the treatment for her ague, but having her +hopes disappointed, she flounced out in a rage and, returning in a little +while, she had us overpowered by some unknown vagabonds, and gave orders +for us to be carried away to a splendid palace.) Then our determination +gave place to astonishment, and death, sure and certain, began to obscure +the eyes of suffering. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. + +"Pray; madame," I groaned, "if you have anything worse in store, bring it +on quickly for we have not committed a crime so heinous as to merit death +by torture." The maid, whose name was Psyche, quickly spread a blanket +upon the floor (and) sought to secure an erection by fondling my member, +which was already a thousand times colder than death. Ascyltos, well +aware by now of the danger of dipping into the secrets of others, covered +his head with his mantle. (In the meantime,) the maid took two ribbons +from her bosom and bound our feet with one and our hands with the other. +(Finding myself trussed up in this fashion, I remarked, "You will not be +able to cure your mistress' ague in this manner!" "Granted," the maid +replied, "but I have other and surer remedies at hand," she brought me a +vessel full of satyrion, as she said this, and so cheerfully did she +gossip about its virtues that I drank down nearly all of the liquor, and +because Ascyltos had but a moment before rejected her advances, she +sprinkled the dregs upon his back, without his knowing it.) When this +repartee had drawn to a close, Ascyltos exclaimed, "Don't I deserve a +drink?" Given away by my laughter, the maid clapped her hands and cried, +"I put one by you, young man; did you drink so much all by yourself?" +"What's that you say?", Quartilla chimed in. "Did Encolpius drink all +the satyrion there was in the house?" And she laughed delightfully until +her sides shook. Finally not even Giton himself could resist a smile, +especially when the little girl caught him around the neck and showered +innumerable kisses upon him, and he not at all averse to it. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. + +We would have cried aloud in our misery but there was no one to give us +any help, and whenever I attempted to shout, "Help! all honest +citizens," Psyche would prick my cheeks with her hairpin, and the little +girl would intimidate Ascyltos with a brush dipped in satyrion. Then a +catamite appeared, clad in a myrtle-colored frieze robe, and girded round +with a belt. One minute he nearly gored us to death with his writhing +buttocks, and the next, he befouled us so with his stinking kisses that +Quartilla, with her robe tucked high, held up her whalebone wand and +ordered him to give the unhappy wretches quarter. Both of us then took a +most solemn oath that so dread a secret should perish with us. Several +wrestling instructors appeared and refreshed us, worn out as we were, by +a massage with pure oil, and when our fatigue had abated, we again donned +our dining clothes and were escorted to the next room, in which were +placed three couches, and where all the essentials necessary to a +splendid banquet were laid out in all their richness. We took our +places, as requested, and began with a wonderful first course. We were +all but submerged in Falernian wine. When several other courses had +followed, and we were endeavoring to keep awake Quartilla exclaimed, "How +dare you think of going to sleep when you know that the vigil of Priapus +is to be kept?" + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. + +Worn out by all his troubles, Ascyltos commenced to nod, and the maid, +whom he had slighted, and of course insulted, smeared lampblack all over +his face, and painted his lips and shoulders with vermillion, while he +drowsed. Completely exhausted by so many untoward adventures, I, too, +was enjoying the shortest of naps, the whole household, within and +without, was doing the same, some were lying here and there asleep at our +feet, others leaned against the walls, and some even slept head to head +upon the threshold itself; the lamps, failing because of a lack of oil, +shed a feeble and flickering light, when two Syrians, bent upon stealing +an amphora of wine, entered the dining-room. While they were greedily +pawing among the silver, they pulled the amphora in two, upsetting the +table with all the silver plate, and a cup, which had flown pretty high, +cut the head of the maid, who was drowsing upon a couch. She screamed at +that, thereby betraying the thieves and wakening some of the drunkards. +The Syrians, who had come for plunder, seeing that they were about to be +detected, were so quick to throw themselves down besides a couch and +commence to snore as if they had been asleep for a long time, that you +would have thought they belonged there. The butler had gotten up and +poured oil in the flickering lamps by this time, and the boys, having +rubbed their eyes open, had returned to their duty, when in came a female +cymbal player and the crashing brass awoke everybody. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD. + +The banquet began all over again, and Quartilla challenged us to a +drinking-bout, the crash of the cymbals lending ardor to her revel. +A catamite appeared, the stalest of all mankind, well worthy of that +house. Heaving a sigh, he wrung his hands until the joints cracked, +and spouted out the following verses, + + "Hither, hither quickly gather, pathic companions boon; + Artfully stretch forth your limbs and on with the dance and play! + Twinkling feet and supple thighs and agile buttocks in tune, + Hands well skilled in raising passions, Delian eunuchs gay!" + +When he had finished his poetry, he slobbered a most evil-smelling kiss +upon me, and then, climbing upon my couch, he proceeded with all his +might and main to pull all of my clothing off. I resisted to the limit +of my strength. He manipulated my member for a long time, but all in +vain. Gummy streams poured down his sweating forehead, and there was so +much chalk in the wrinkles of his cheeks that you might have mistaken his +face for a roofless wall, from which the plaster was crumbling in a rain. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. + +Driven to the last extremity, I could no longer keep back the tears. +"Madame," I burst out, "is this the night-cap which you ordered served to +me?" Clapping her hands softly she cried out, "Oh you witty rogue, you +are a fountain of repartee, but you never knew before that a catamite was +called a k-night-cap, now did you?" Then, fearing my companion would come +off better than I, "Madame," I said, "I leave it to your sense of +fairness: is Ascyltos to be the only one in this dining-room who keeps +holiday?" "Fair enough," conceded Quartilla, "let Ascyltos have his +k-night-cap too!" On hearing that, the catamite changed mounts, and, +having bestridden my comrade, nearly drove him to distraction with his +buttocks and his kisses. Giton was standing between us and splitting his +sides with laughter when Quartilla noticed him, and actuated by the +liveliest curiosity, she asked whose boy he was, and upon my answering +that he was my "brother," "Why has he not kissed me then?" she +demanded. Calling him to her, she pressed a kiss upon his mouth, then +putting her hand beneath his robe, she took hold of his little member, as +yet so undeveloped. "This," she remarked, "shall serve me very well +tomorrow, as a whet to my appetite, but today I'll take no common fare +after choice fish!" + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. + +She was still talking when Psyche, who was giggling, came to her side and +whispered something in her ear. What it was, I did not catch. "By all +means," ejaculated Quartilla, "a brilliant idea! Why shouldn't our +pretty little Pannychis lose her maidenhead when the opportunity is so +favorable?" A little girl, pretty enough, too, was led in at once; she +looked to be not over seven years of age, and she was the same one who +had before accompanied Quartilla to our room. Amidst universal applause, +and in response to the demands of all, they made ready to perform the +nuptial rites. I was completely out of countenance, and insisted that +such a modest boy as Giton was entirely unfitted for such a wanton part, +and moreover, that the child was not of an age at which she could receive +that which a woman must take. "Is that so," Quartilla scoffed, "is she +any younger than I was, when I submitted to my first man? Juno, my +patroness, curse me if I can remember the time when I ever was a virgin, +for I diverted myself with others of my own age, as a child then as the +years passed, I played with bigger boys, until at last I reached my +present age. I suppose that this explains the origin of the proverb, +'Who carried the calf may carry the bull,' as they say." As I feared +that Giton might run greater risk if I were absent, I got up to take +part in the ceremony. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH. + +Psyche had already enveloped the child's head in the bridal-veil, the +catamite, holding a torch, led the long procession of drunken women which +followed; they were clapping their hands, having previously decked out +the bridal-bed with a suggestive drapery. Quartilla, spurred on by the +wantonness of the others, seized hold of Giton and drew him into the +bridal-chamber. There was no doubt of the boy's perfect willingness to +go, nor was the girl at all alarmed at the name of marriage. When they +were finally in bed, and the door shut, we seated ourselves outside the +door of the bridal-chamber, and Quartilla applied a curious eye to a +chink, purposely made, watching their childish dalliance with lascivious +attention. She then drew me gently over to her side that I might share +the spectacle with her, and when we both attempted to peep our faces were +pressed against each other; whenever she was not engrossed in the +performance, she screwed up her lips to meet mine, and pecked at me +continually with furtive kisses. [A thunderous hammering was heard at +the door, while all this was going on, and everyone wondered what this +unexpected interruption could mean, when we saw a soldier, one of the +night-watch, enter with a drawn sword in his hand, and surrounded by a +crowd of young rowdies. He glared about him with savage eyes and +blustering mien, and, catching sight of Quartilla, presently, "What's up +now, you shameless woman," he bawled; "what do you mean by making game of +me with lying promises, and cheating me out of the night you promised me? +But you won't get off unpunished You and that lover of yours are going to +find out that I'm a man!" At the soldier's orders, his companion bound +Quartilla and myself together, mouth to mouth, breast to breast, and +thigh to thigh; and not without a great deal of laughter. Then the +catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with +the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly +from, nor in any other way avoid. Finally, he ravished me, and worked +his entire pleasure upon me. In the meantime, the satyrion which I had +drunk only a little while before spurred every nerve to lust and I began +to gore Quartilla impetuously, and she, burning with the same passion, +reciprocated in the game. The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved +were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest +of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as +rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me. While +this was going on, Pannychis, unaccustomed at her tender years to the +pastime of Venus, raised an outcry and attracted the attention of the +soldier, by this unexpected howl of consternation, for this slip of a +girl was being ravished, and Giton the victor, had won a not bloodless +victory. Aroused by what he saw, the soldier rushed upon them, seizing +Pannychis, then Giton, then both of them together, in a crushing embrace. +The virgin burst into tears and plead with him to remember her age, but +her prayers availed her nothing, the soldier only being fired the more by +her childish charms. Pannychis covered her head at last, resolved to +endure whatever the Fates had in store for her. At this instant, an old +woman, the very same who had tricked me on that day when I was hunting +for our lodging, came to the aid of Pannychis, as though she had dropped +from the clouds. With loud cries, she rushed into the house, swearing +that a gang of footpads was prowling about the neighborhood and the +people invoked the help of "All honest men," in vain, for the members of +the night-watch were either asleep or intent upon some carouse, as they +were nowhere to be found. Greatly terrified at this, the soldier rushed +headlong from Quartilla's house. His companions followed after him, +freeing Pannychis from impending danger and relieving the rest of us from +our fear.] (I was so weary of Quartilla's lechery that I began to +meditate means of escape. I made my intentions known to Ascyltos, who, +as he wished to rid himself of the importunities of Psyche, was +delighted; had not Giton been shut up in the bridal-chamber, the plan +would have presented no difficulties, but we wished to take him with us, +and out of the way of the viciousness of these prostitutes. We were +anxiously engaged in debating this very point, when Pannychis fell out of +bed, and dragged Giton after her, by her own weight. He was not hurt, +but the girl gave her head a slight bump, and raised such a clamor that +Quartilla, in a terrible fright, rushed headlong into the room, giving us +the opportunity of making off. We did not tarry, but flew back to our +inn where,) throwing ourselves upon the bed, we passed the remainder of +the night without fear. (Sallying forth next day, we came upon two of +our kidnappers, one of whom Ascyltos savagely attacked the moment he set +eyes upon him, and, after having thrashed and seriously wounded him, +he ran to my aid against the other. He defended himself so stoutly, +however, that he wounded us both, slightly, and escaped unscathed.) The +third day had now dawned, the date set for the free dinner (at +Trimalchio's,) but battered as we were, flight seemed more to our taste +than quiet, so (we hastened to our inn and, as our wounds turned out to +be trifling, we dressed them with vinegar and oil, and went to bed. The +ruffian whom we had done for, was still lying upon the ground and we +feared detection.) Affairs were at this pass, and we were framing +melancholy excuses with which to evade the coming revel, when a slave of +Agamemnon's burst in upon our trembling conclave and said, "Don't you +know with whom your engagement is today? The exquisite Trimalchio, who +keeps a clock and a liveried bugler in his dining-room, so that he can +tell, instantly, how much of his life has run out!" Forgetting all our +troubles at that, we dressed hurriedly and ordered Giton, who had very +willingly performed his servile office, to follow us to the bath. + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Boys play in the schools, the young men are laughed at +Deferred pleasures are a long time coming +Egyptians "commercialized" that incomparable art +Errors committed in the name of religion +Everything including the children, is devoted to ambition +Laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel +No one will confess the errors he was taught in his school days +Priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for prophecy +See or hear nothing at all of the affairs of every-day life +The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics +They secure their ends, save by setting snares for the ears + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Satyricon, Vol. 1, Introduction +by Petronius Arbiter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SATYRICON, VOL. 1 *** + +***** This file should be named 5218.txt or 5218.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/1/5218/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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D.W.] + + + + + + THE SATYRICON OF + PETRONIUS ARBITER + + 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. + + +Among the difficulties which beset the path of the conscientious +translator, a sense of his own unworthiness must ever take precedence; +but another, scarcely less disconcerting, is the likelihood of +misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the author +and his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, +is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of a later +generation. + +A translation worthy of the name is as much the product of a literary +epoch as it is of the brain and labor of a scholar; and Melmouth's +version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made, as it was, at a +period when the art of English letter writing had attained its highest +excellence, may well be the despair of our twentieth century apostles of +specialization. Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass +with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of +that masterpiece? Who could rival Arthur Golding's rendering of the +Metamorphoses of Ovid, or Francis Hicke's masterly rendering of Lucian's +True History? But eternal life means endless change and in nothing is +this truth more strikingly manifest than in the growth and decadence of +living languages and in the translation of dead tongues into the ever +changing tissue of the living. Were it not for this, no translation +worthy of the name would ever stand in need of revision, except in +instances where the discovery and collation of fresh manuscripts had +improved the text. In the case of an author whose characters speak in +the argot proper to their surroundings, the necessity for revision is +even more imperative; the change in the cultured speech of a language is +a process that requires years to become pronounced, the evolution of +slang is rapid and its usage ephemeral. For example Stephen Gaselee, in +his bibliography of Petronius, calls attention to Harry Thurston Peck's +rendering of "bell um pomum" by "he's a daisy," and remarks, +appropriately enough, "that this was well enough for 1898; but we would +now be more inclined to render it "he's a peach." Again, Peck renders +"illud erat vivere" by "that was life," but, in the words of our lyric +American jazz, we would be more inclined to render it "that was the +life." "But," as Professor Gaselee has said, "no rendering of this part +of the Satyricon can be final, it must always be in the slang of the +hour." + +"Some," writes the immortal translator of Rabelais, in his preface, +"have deservedly gained esteem by translating; yet not many condescend +to translate but such as cannot invent; though to do the first well, +requires often as much genius as to do the latter. I wish, reader, +thou mayest be as willing to do the author justice, as I have strove +to do him right." + +Many scholars have lamented the failure of Justus Lipsius to comment upon +Petronius or edit an edition of the Satyricon. Had he done so, he might +have gone far toward piercing the veil of darkness which enshrouds the +authorship of the work and the very age in which the composer flourished. +To me, personally, the fact that Laurence Sterne did not undertake a +version, has caused much regret. The master who delineated Tristram +Shandy's father and the intrigue between the Widow Wadman and Uncle Toby +would have drawn Trimalchio and his peers to admiration. + + W. C. F. + + + + +CONTENTS: + +PREFACE +INTRODUCTION +THE SATYRICON +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 + Introduction + I Soldiers in love + II Courtesans + III Greek love + IV Pollution + V Virginity + VI Pandars + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + +Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to +modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few +have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this +scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to +that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance +and dictator of fashion. The flashing, wit, the masterly touches which +bring out the characters with all the detail of a fine old copper +etching; the marvelous use of realism by this, its first prophet; the +sure knowledge of the perspective and background best adapted to each +episode; the racy style, so smooth, so elegant, so simple when the +educated are speaking, beguile the reader and blind him, at first, to the +many discrepancies and incoherences with which the text, as we have it, +is marred. The more one concentrates upon this author, the more apparent +these faults become and the more one regrets the lacunae in the text. +Notwithstanding numerous articles which deal with this work, some from +the pens of the most profound scholars, its author is still shrouded in +the mists of uncertainty and conjecture. He is as impersonal as +Shakespeare, as aloof as Flaubert, in the opinion of Charles Whibley, +and, it may be added, as genial as Rabelais; an enigmatic genius whose +secret will never be laid bare with the resources at our present command. +As I am not writing for scholars, I do not intend going very deeply into +the labyrinth of critical controversy which surrounds the author and the +work, but I shall deal with a few of the questions which, if properly +understood, will enhance the value of the Satyricon, and contribute, in +some degree, to a better understanding of the author. For the sake of +convenience the questions discussed in this introduction will be arranged +in the following order: + +1. The Satyricon. + +2. The Author. + a His Character. + b His Purpose in Writing. + c Time in which the Action is placed. + d Localization of the Principal Episode. + +3. Realism. + a Influence of the Satyricon upon the Literature of the World. + +4. The Forgeries. + + + +I + +THE SATYRICON. Heinsius and Scaliger derive the word from the Greek, +whence comes our English word satyr, but Casaubon, Dacier and Spanheim +derive it from the Latin 'satura,' a plate filled with different kinds +of food, and they refer to Porphyrion's 'multis et variis rebus hoc +carmen refertum est.' + +The text, as we possess it, may be divided into three divisions: the +first and last relate the adventures of Encolpius and his companions, the +second, which is a digression, describes the Dinner of Trimalchio. That +the work was originally divided into books, we had long known from +ancient glossaries, and we learn, from the title of the Traguriensian +manuscript, that the fragments therein contained are excerpts from the +fifteenth and sixteenth books. An interpolation of Fulgentius (Paris +7975) attributes to Book Fourteen the scene related in Chapter 20 of the +work as we have it, and the glossary of St. Benedict Floriacensis cites +the passage 'sed video te totum in illa haerere, quae Troiae halosin +ostendit (Chapter 89), as from Book Fifteen. As there is no reason to +suppose that the chapters intervening between the end of the Cena +(Chapter 79) and Chapter 89 are out of place, it follows that this +passage may have belonged to Book Sixteen, or even Seventeen, but that it +could not have belonged to Book Fifteen. From the interpolation of +Fulgentius we may hazard the opinion that the beginning of the fragments, +as we possess them (Chapters 1 to 26), form part of Book Fourteen. The +Dinner of Trimalchio probably formed a complete book, fifteen, and the +continuation of the adventures of Encolpius down to his meeting with +Eumolpus (end of Chapter 140) Book Sixteen. The discomfiture of Eumolpus +should have closed this book but not the entire work, as the exit of the +two principal characters is not fixed at the time our fragments come to +an end. The original work, then, would probably have exceeded Tom Jones +in length. + + + +II + +THE AUTHOR. + +a--"Not often," says Studer (Rheinisches Museum, 1843), "has there been +so much dispute about the author, the times, the character and the +purpose of a writing of antiquity as about the fragments of the Satyricon +of Petronius." The discovery and publication of the Trau manuscript +brought about a literary controversy which has had few parallels, and +which has not entirely died out to this day, although the best +authorities ascribe the work to Caius Petronius, the Arbiter Elegantiarum +at the court of Nero. "The question as to the date of the narrative of +the adventures of Encolpius and his boon companions must be regarded as +settled," says Theodor Mommsen (Hermes, 1878); "this narrative is +unsurpassed in originality and mastery of treatment among the writings of +Roman literature. Nor does anyone doubt the identity of its author and +the Arbiter Elegantiarum of Nero, whose end Tacitus relates." + +In any case, the author of this work, if it be the work of one brain, +must have been a profound psychologist, a master of realism, a +natural-born story teller, and a gentleman. + + +b--His principal object in writing the work was to amuse but, in amusing, +he also intended to pillory the aristocracy and his wit is as keen as the +point of a rapier; but, when we bear in mind the fact that he was an +ancient, we will find that his cynicism is not cruel, in him there is +none of the malignity of Aristophanes; there is rather the attitude of +the refined patrician who is always under the necessity of facing those +things which he holds most in contempt, the supreme artist who suffers +from the multitude of bill-boards, so to speak, who lashes the posters +but holds in pitying contempt those who know so little of true art that +they mistake those posters for the genuine article. Niebuhr's estimate +of his character is so just and free from prejudice, and proceeds from +a mind which, in itself, was so pure and wholesome, that I will quote it: + +"All great dramatic poets are endowed with the power of creating beings +who seem to act and speak with perfect independence, so that the poet is +nothing more than the relator of what takes place. When Goethe had +conceived Faust and Margarete, Mephistopheles and Wagner, they moved and +had their being without any exercise of his will. But in the peculiar +power which Petronius exercises, in its application to every scene, to +every individual character, in everything, noble or mean, which he +undertakes, I know of but one who is fully equal to the Roman, and that +is Diderot. Trimalchio and Agamemnon might have spoken for Petronius, +and the nephew Rameau and the parson Papin for Diderot, in every +condition and on every occasion inexhaustibly, out of their own nature; +just so the purest and noblest souls, whose kind was, after all, not +entirely extinct in their day. + +"Diderot and a contemporary, related to him in spirit, Count Gaspar +Gozzi, are marked with the same cynicism which disfigures the Roman; +their age, like his, had become shameless. But as the two former were in +their heart noble, upright, and benevolent men, and as in the writings of +Diderot genuine virtue and a tenderness unknown to his contemporaries +breathe, so the peculiarity of such a genius can, as it seems, be given +to a noble and elevated being only. The deep contempt for prevailing +immorality which naturally leads to cynicism, and a heart which beats for +everything great and glorious,--virtues which then had no existence,-- +speak from the pages of the Roman in a language intelligible to every +susceptible heart." + + +e--Beck, in his paper, "The Age of Petronius Arbiter," concluded that the +author lived and wrote between the years 6 A.D. and 34 A.D., but he +overlooked the possibility that the author might have lived a few years +later, written of conditions as they were in his own times, and yet laid +the action of his novel a few years before. Mommsen and Haley place the +time under Augustus, Buecheler, about 36-7 A.D., and Friedlaender under +Nero. + + +d--La Porte du Theil places the scene at Naples because of the fact the +city in which our heroes met Agamemnon must have been of some +considerable size because neither Encolpius nor Asclytos could find their +way back to their inn, when once they had left it, because both were +tired out from tramping around in search of it and because Giton had been +so impressed with this danger that he took the precaution to mark the +pillars with chalk in order that they might not be lost a second time. +The Gulf of Naples is the only bit of coastline which fits the needs of +the novel, hence the city must be Naples. The fact that neither of the +characters knew the city proves that they had been recent arrivals, and +this furnishes a clue, vague though it is, to what may have gone before. + +Haley, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," vol. II, makes out a +very strong case for Puteoli, and his theory of the old town and the new +town is as ingenious as it is able. Haley also has Trimalchio in his +favor, as has also La Porte du Theil. "I saw the Sibyl at Cumae," says +Trimalchio. Now if the scene of the dinner is actually at Cumae this +sounds very peculiar; it might even be a gloss added by some copyist +whose knowledge was not equal to his industry. On the other hand, +suppose Trimalchio is speaking of something so commonplace in his +locality that the second term has become a generic, then the difficulty +disappears. We today, even though standing upon the very spot in Melos +where the Venus was unearthed, would still refer to her as the Venus de +Melos. Friedlaender, in bracketing Cumis, has not taken this +sufficiently into consideration. Mommsen, in an excellent paper (Hermes, +1878), has laid the scene at Cumae. His logic is almost unanswerable, +and the consensus of opinion is in favor of the latter town. + + + +III + +REALISM. Realism, as we are concerned with it, may be defined as the +literary effect produced by the marshaling of details in their exactitude +for the purpose of bringing out character. The fact that they may be +ugly and vulgar the reverse, makes not the slightest difference. The +modern realist contemplates the inanimate things which surround us with +peculiar complaisance, and it is right that he should as these things +exert upon us a constant and secret influence. The workings of the human +mind, in complex civilizations, are by no means simple; they are involved +and varied: our thoughts, our feelings, our wills, associate themselves +with an infinite number of sensations and images which play one upon the +other, and which individualize, in some measure, every action we commit, +and stamp it. The merit of our modern realists lies in the fact that +they have studied the things which surround us and our relations to them, +and thus have they been able to make their creations conform to human +experience. The ancients gave little attention to this; the man, with +them, was the important thing; the environment the unimportant. There +are, of course, exceptions; the interview between Ulysses and Nausiskaa +is probably the most striking. From the standpoint of environment, +Petronius, in the greater portion of his work, is an ancient; but one +exception there is, and it is as brilliant as it is important. The +entire episode, in which Trimalchio figures, offers an incredible +abundance of details. The descriptions are exhaustive and minute, but +the author's prime purpose was not description, it was to bring out the +characters, it was to pillory the Roman aristocracy, it was to amuse! +Cicero, in his prosecution of Verres, had shown up this aristocracy in +all its brutality and greed, it remained for the author of the Cena to +hold its absurdity up to the light of day, to lash an extravagance which, +though utterly unbridled, was yet unable to exhaust the looted +accumulations of years of political double dealing and malfeasance in +office. Trimalchio's introduction is a masterstroke, the porter at the +door is another, the effect of the wine upon the women, their jealousy +lest either's husband should seem more liberal, their appraisal of each +other's jewelry, Scintilla's remark anent the finesse of Habinnas' +servant in the mere matter of pandering, the blear-eyed and black-toothed +slave, teasing a little bitch disgustingly fat, offering her pieces of +bread and when, from sheer inability, she refuses to eat, cramming it +down her throat, the effect of the alcohol upon Trimalchio, the little +old lady girded round with a filthy apron, wearing clogs which were not +mates, dragging in a huge dog on a chain, the incomparable humor in the +passage in which Hesus, desperately seasick, sees that which makes him +believe that even worse misfortunes are in store for him: these details +are masterpieces of realism. The description of the night-prowling +shyster lawyer, whose forehead is covered with sebaceous wens, is the +very acme of propriety; our first meeting; with the poet Eumolpus is a +beautiful study in background and perspective. Nineteen centuries have +gone their way since this novel was written, but if we look about us we +will be able to recognize, under the veneer of civilization, the +originals of the Satyricon and we will find that here, in a little corner +of the Roman world, all humanity was held in miniature. Petronius must +be credited with the great merit of having introduced realism into the +novel. By an inspiration of genius, he saw that the framework of +frivolous and licentious novels could be enlarged until it took in +contemporary custom and environment. It is that which assures for him +an eminent place, not in Roman literature alone, but in the literature +of the world. + +a--INFLUENCE OF THE SATYRICON UPON LITERATURE. The vagrant heroes of +Petronius are the originals from whom directly, or indirectly, later +authors drew that inspiration which resulted in the great mass of +picaresque fiction; but, great as this is, it is not to this that the +Satyricon owes its powerful influence upon the literature of the world. +It is to the author's recognition of the importance of environment, +of the vital role of inanimate surroundings as a means for bringing out +character and imbuing his episodes and the actions of his characters with +an air of reality and with those impulses and actions which are common to +human experience, that his influence is due. By this, the Roman created +a new style of writing and inaugurated a class of literature which was +without parallel until the time of Apuleius and, in a lesser degree, of +Lucian. This class of literature, though modified essentially from age +to age, in keeping with the dictates of moral purity or bigotry, innocent +or otherwise, has come to be the very stuff of which literary success in +fiction is made. One may write a successful book without a thread of +romance; one cannot write a successful romance without some knowledge of +realism; the more intimate the knowledge the better the book, and it is +frequently to this that the failure of a novel is due, although the +critic might be at a loss to explain it. Petronius lies behind Tristram +Shandy, his influence can be detected in Smollett, and even Fielding paid +tribute to him. + + + +IV + +FORGERIES OF PETRONIUS. + +From the very nature of the writings of such an author as Petronius, it +is evident that the gaps in the text would have a marked tendency to +stimulate the curiosity of literary forgers and to tempt their sagacity, +literary or otherwise. The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and +the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes +emendandi." + +When, circa 1650, the library of the unfortunate Nicolas Cippico yielded +up the Trau fragment, the news of this discovery spread far and wide and +about twelve years later, Statileo, in response to the repeated requests +of the Venetian ambassador, Pietro Basadonna, made with his own hand a +copy of the MS., which he sent to Basadonna. The ambassador, in turn, +permitted this MS. to be printed by one Frambotti, a printer endowed with +more industry than critical acumen, and the resultant textual conflation +had much to do with the pamphlet war which followed. Had this Paduan +printer followed the explicit directions which he received, and printed +exactly what was given him much good paper might have been saved and a +very interesting chapter in the history of literary forgery would +probably never have been written. The pamphlet war did not die out until +Bleau, in 1670-71, printed his exact reproduction of the Trau manuscript +and the corrections introduced by that licentiousness of emendation of +which we have spoken. + +In October, 1690, Francois Nodot, a French soldier of fortune, a +commissary officer who combined belles lettres and philosophy with his +official duties, wrote to Charpentier, President of the Academy of +France, calling, his attention to a copy of a manuscript which he (Nodot) +possessed, and which came into his hands in the following manner: one +Du Pin, a French officer detailed to service with Austria, had been +present at the sack of Belgrade in 1688. That this Du Pin had, while +there, made the acquaintance of a certain Greek renegade, having, as a +matter of fact, stayed in the house of this renegade. The Greek's +father, a man of some learning, had by some means come into possession of +the MS., and Du Pin, in going through some of the books in the house, had +come across it. He had experienced the utmost difficulty in deciphering +the letters, and finally, driven by curiosity, had retained a copyist and +had it copied out. That this Du Pin had this copy in his house at +Frankfort, and that he had given Nodot to understand that if he (Nodot) +came to Frankfort, he would be permitted to see this copy. Owing to the +exigencies of military service, Nodot had been unable to go in person to +Frankfort, and that he had therefore availed himself of the friendly +interest and services of a certain merchant of Frankfort, who had +volunteered to find an amanuensis, have a copy made, and send it to +Nodot. This was done, and Nodot concludes his letter to Charpentier by +requesting the latter to lay the result before the Academy and ask for +their blessing and approval. These Nodotian Supplements were accepted as +authentic by the Academics of Arles and Nimes, as well as by Charpentier. +In a short time, however, the voices of scholarly skeptics began to be +heard in the land, and accurate and unbiased criticism laid bare the +fraud. The Latinity was attacked and exception taken to Silver Age +prose in which was found a French police regulation which required newly +arrived travellers to register their names in the book of a police +officer of an Italian village of the first century. Although they are +still retained in the text by some editors, this is done to give some +measure of continuity to an otherwise interrupted narrative, but they can +only serve to distort the author and obscure whatever view of him the +reader might otherwise have reached. They are generally printed between +brackets or in different type. + +In 1768 another and far abler forger saw the light of day. Jose +Marchena, a Spaniard of Jewish extraction, was destined for an +ecclesiastical career. He received an excellent education which served +to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism. In +his early youth he showed a marked preference for uncanonical pursuits +and heretical doctrines and before he had reached his thirtieth year +prudence counseled him to prevent the consequences of his heresy and +avoid the too pressing Inquisition by a timely flight into France. +He arrived there in time to throw himself into the fight for liberty, +and in 1800 we find him at Basle attached to the staff of General Moreau. +While there he is said to have amused himself and some of his cronies by +writing notes on what Davenport would have called "Forbidden Subjects," +and, as a means of publishing his erotic lucubrations, he constructed +this fragment, which brings in those topics on which he had enlarged. +He translated the fragment into French, attached his notes, and issued +the book. There is another story to the effect that he had been +reprimanded by Moreau for having written a loose song and that he +exculpated himself by assuring the general that it was but a new fragment +of Petronius which he had translated. Two days later he had the fragment +ready to prove his contention. + +This is the account given by his Spanish biographer. In his preface, +dedicated to the Army of the Rhine, he states that he found the fragment +in a manuscript of the work of St. Gennadius on the Duties of Priests, +probably of the XI Century. A close examination revealed the fact that +it was a palimpsest which, after treatment, permitted the restoration of +this fragment. It is supposed to supply the gap in Chapter 26 after the +word "verberabant." + +Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, +style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect +imitation. There is no internal evidence of forgery. If the text is +closely scrutinized it will be seen that it is composed of words and +expressions taken from various parts of the Satyricon, "and that in every +line it has exactly the Petronian turn of phrase." + +"Not only is the original edition unprocurable," to quote again from +Mr. Gaselee's invaluable bibliography, "but the reprint at Soleure +(Brussels), 1865, consisted of only 120 copies, and is hard to find. +The most accessible place for English readers is in Bohn's translation, +in which, however, only the Latin text is given; and the notes were a +most important part of the original work." + +These notes, humorously and perhaps sarcastically ascribed to Lallemand, +Sanctae Theologiae Doctor, "are six in number (all on various forms of +vice); and show great knowledge, classical and sociological, of unsavory +subjects. Now that the book is too rare to do us any harm, we may admit +that the pastiche was not only highly amusing, but showed a perverse +cleverness amounting almost to genius." + +Marchena died at Madrid in great poverty in 1821. A contemporary has +described him as being rather short and heavy set in figure, of great +frontal development, and vain beyond belief. He considered himself +invincible where women were concerned. He had a peculiar predilection +in the choice of animal pets and was an object of fear and curiosity +to the towns people. His forgery might have been completely successful +had he not acknowledged it himself within two or three years after the +publication of his brochure. The fragment will remain a permanent +tribute to the excellence of his scholarship, but it is his Ode to Christ +Crucified which has made him more generally known, and it is one of the +ironies of fate that caused this deformed giant of sarcasm to compose a +poem of such tender and touching piety. + +Very little is known about Don Joe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas, whose +connecting passages, with the exception of one which is irrelevant, are +here included. + +The learned editors of the Spanish encyclopedia naively preface their +brief sketch with the following assertion: "no tenemos noticias de su +vida." De Salas was born in 1588 and died in 1654. His edition of +Petronius was first issued in 1629 and re-issued in 1643 with a copper +plate of the Editor. The Paris edition, from which he says he supplied +certain deficiencies in the text, is unknown to bibliographers and is +supposed to be fictitious. + +To distinguish the spurious passages, as a point of interest, in the +present edition, the forgeries of Nodot are printed within round +brackets, the forgery of Marchena within square brackets, and the +additions of De Salas in italics {In this PG etext in curly brackets}. + +The work is also accompanied by a translation of the six notes, the +composition of which led Marchena to forge the fragment which first +appeared in the year 1800. These have never before been translated. + +Thanks are due Ralph Straus, Esq., and Professor Stephen Gaselee. + + + + + THE SATYRICON OF + PETRONIUS ARBITER + + +BRACKET CODE: + (Forgeries of Nodot) + [Forgeries of Marchena] + {Additions of De Salas} + DW + + +VOLUME 1.--ADVENTURES OF ENCOLPIUS AND HIS COMPANIONS + + +CHAPTER THE FIRST. + +(It has been so long; since I promised you the story of my adventures, +that I have decided to make good my word today; and, seeing that we have +thus fortunately met, not to discuss scientific matters alone, but also +to enliven our jolly conversation with witty stories. Fabricius Veiento +has already spoken very cleverly on the errors committed in the name of +religion, and shown how priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for +prophecy, boldly expound mysteries which are too often such to +themselves. But) are our rhetoricians tormented by another species of +Furies when they cry, "I received these wounds while fighting for the +public liberty; I lost this eye in your defense: give me a guide who will +lead me to my children, my limbs are hamstrung and will not hold me up!" +Even these heroics could be endured if they made easier the road to +eloquence; but as it is, their sole gain from this ferment of matter and +empty discord of words is, that when they step into the Forum, they think +they have been carried into another world. And it is my conviction that +the schools are responsible for the gross foolishness of our young men, +because, in them, they see or hear nothing at all of the affairs of +every-day life, but only pirates standing in chains upon the shore, +tyrants scribbling edicts in which sons are ordered to behead their own +fathers; responses from oracles, delivered in time of pestilence, +ordering the immolation of three or more virgins; every word a honied +drop, every period sprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. + + + + +CHAPTER THE SECOND. + +Those who are brought up on such a diet can no more attain to wisdom than +a kitchen scullion can attain to a keen sense of smell or avoid stinking +of the grease. With your indulgence, I will speak out: you--teachers-- +are chiefly responsible for the decay of oratory. With your well +modulated and empty tones you have so labored for rhetorical effect that +the body of your speech has lost its vigor and died. Young men did not +learn set speeches in the days when Sophocles and Euripides were +searching for words in which to express themselves. In the days when +Pindar and the nine lyric poets feared to attempt Homeric verse there was +no private tutor to stifle budding genius. I need not cite the poets for +evidence, for I do not find that either Plato or Demosthenes was given +to this kind of exercise. A dignified and, if I may say it, a chaste, +style, is neither elaborate nor loaded with ornament; it rises supreme by +its own natural purity. This windy and high-sounding bombast, a recent +immigrant to Athens, from Asia, touched with its breath the aspiring +minds of youth, with the effect of some pestilential planet, and as soon +as the tradition of the past was broken, eloquence halted and was +stricken dumb. Since that, who has attained to the sublimity of +Thucydides, who rivalled the fame of Hyperides? Not a single poem +has glowed with a healthy color, but all of them, as though nourished +on the same diet, lacked the strength to live to old age. Painting +also suffered the same fate when the presumption of the Egyptians +"commercialized" that incomparable art. (I was holding forth along these +lines one day, when Agamemnon came up to us and scanned with a curious +eye a person to whom the audience was listening so closely.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE THIRD. + +He would not permit me to declaim longer in the portico than he himself +had sweat in the school, but exclaimed, "Your sentiments do not reflect +the public taste, young man, and you are a lover of common sense, which +is still more unusual. For that reason, I will not deceive you as to the +secrets of my profession. The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics, +are by no means to blame for these exercises. Unless they spoke in +accordance with the dictates of their young pupils, they would, as Cicero +remarks, be left alone in the schools! And, as designing parasites, when +they seek invitations to the tables of the rich, have in mind nothing +except what will, in their opinion, be most acceptable to their audience +--for in no other way can they secure their ends, save by setting snares +for the ears--so it is with the teachers of rhetoric, they might be +compared with the fisherman, who, unless he baits his hook with what he +knows is most appetizing to the little fish, may wait all day upon some +rock, without the hope of a catch." + + + + +CHAPTER THE FOURTH. + +What, then, is there to do? The parents who are unwilling to permit +their children to undergo a course of training under strict discipline, +are the ones who deserve the reproof. In the first place, everything +they possess, including the children, is devoted to ambition. Then, that +their wishes may the more quickly be realized, they drive these unripe +scholars into the forum, and the profession of eloquence, than which none +is considered nobler, devolves upon boys who are still in the act of +being born! If, however, they would permit a graded course of study to +be prescribed, in order that studious boys might ripen their minds by +diligent reading; balance their judgment by precepts of wisdom, correct +their compositions with an unsparing pen, hear at length what they ought +to imitate, and be convinced that nothing can be sublime when it is +designed to catch the fancy of boys, then the grand style of oratory +would immediately recover the weight and splendor of its majesty. Now +the boys play in the schools, the young men are laughed at in the forum, +and, a worse symptom than either, no one, in his old age, will confess +the errors he was taught in his school days. But that you may not +imagine that I disapprove of a jingle in the Lucilian manner, I will +deliver my opinions in verse,-- + + + + +CHAPTER THE FIFTH. + + "The man who emerges with fame, from the school of stern art, + + Whose mind gropes for lofty ideals, to bring them to light, + + Must first, under rigid frugality, study his part; + + Nor yearn for the courts of proud princes who frown in their might: + + Nor scheme with the riff-raf, a client in order to dine, + + Nor can he with evil companions his wit drown in wine + + Nor sit, as a hireling, applauding an actor's grimace. + + But, whether the fortress of arms-bearing Tritonis smile + + Upon him, or land which the Spartan colonials grace, + + Or home of the sirens, with poetry let him beguile + + The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring + + His fortunate soul drink its fill: Then, when later, the lore + + Of Socrates' school he has mastered, the reins let him fling, + + And brandish the weapons that mighty Demosthenes bore. + + Then, steeped in the culture and music of Greece, let his taste + + Be ripened and mellowed by all the great writers of Rome. + + At first, let him haunt not the courts; let his pages be graced + + By ringing and rhythmic effusions composed in his home + + Next, banquets and wars be his theme, sung in soul-stirring chant, + + In eloquent words such as undaunted Cicero chose. + + Come! Gird up thy soul! Inspiration will then force a vent + + And rush in a flood from a heart that is loved by the muse!" + + + + +CHAPTER THE SIXTH. + +I was listening so attentively to this speech that I did not notice the +flight of Ascyltos, and while I was pacing the gardens, engulfed in this +flood-tide of rhetoric, a large crowd of students came out upon the +portico, having, it would seem, just listened to an extemporaneous +declamation, of I know not whom, the speaker of which had taken +exceptions to the speech of Agamemnon. While, therefore, the young men +were making fun of the sentiments of this last speaker, and criticizing +the arrangement of the whole speech, I seized the opportunity and went +after Ascyltos, on the run; but, as I neither held strictly to the road, +nor knew where the inn was located, wherever I went, I kept coming back +to the same place, until, worn out with running, and long since dripping +with sweat, I approached a certain little old woman who sold country +vegetables. + + + + +CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. + +"Please, mother," I wheedled, "you don't know where I lodge, do you?" +Delighted with such humorous affability, "What's the reason I don't" she +replied, and getting upon her feet, she commenced to walk ahead of me. I +took her for a prophetess until, when presently we came to a more obscure +quarter, the affable old lady pushed aside a crazy-quilt and remarked, +"Here's where you ought to live," and when I denied that I recognized the +house, I saw some men prowling stealthily between the rows of name-boards +and naked prostitutes. Too late I realized that I had been led into a +brothel. After cursing the wiles of the little old hag, I covered my +head and commenced to run through the middle of the night-house to the +exit opposite, when, lo and behold! whom should I meet on the very +threshold but Ascyltos himself, as tired as I was, and almost dead; you +would have thought that he had been brought by the self-same little old +hag! I smiled at that, greeted him cordially, and asked him what he was +doing in such a scandalous place. + + + + +CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. + +Wiping away the sweat with his hands, he replied, "If you only knew what +I have gone through!" "What was it?" I demanded. "A most respectable +looking person came up to me," he made reply, "while I was wandering all +over the town and could not find where I had left my inn, and very +graciously offered to guide me. He led me through some very dark and +crooked alleys, to this place, pulled out his tool, and commenced to beg +me to comply with his appetite. 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." (While +Ascyltos was telling me of his bad luck, who should come up again but +this same very respectable looking person, in company with a woman not at +all bad looking, and, looking at Ascyltos, he requested him to enter the +house, assuring him that there was nothing to fear, and, since he was +unwilling to take the passive part, he should have the active. The +woman, on her part, urged me very persistently to accompany her, so we +followed the couple, at last, and were conducted between the rows of +name-boards, where we saw, in cells, many persons of each sex amusing +themselves in such a manner) that it seemed to me that every one of them +must have been drinking satyrion. (On catching sight of us, they +attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with +his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down +upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. I succored the sufferer +immediately, however,) and having joined forces, we defied the +troublesome wretch. (Ascyltos ran out of the house and took to his +heels, leaving me as the object of their lewd attacks, but the crowd, +finding me the stronger in body and purpose, let me go unharmed.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE NINTH. + +(After having tramped nearly all over the city,) I caught sight of Giton, +as though through a fog, standing at the end of the street, (on the very +threshold of the inn,) and I hastened to the same place. When I inquired +whether my "brother" had prepared anything for breakfast, the boy sat +down upon the bed and wiped away the trickling tears with his thumb. +I was greatly disturbed by such conduct on the part of my "brother," and +demanded to be told what had happened. After I had mingled threats with +entreaties, he answered slowly and against his will, "That brother or +comrade of yours rushed into the room a little while ago and commenced to +attempt my virtue by force. When I screamed, he pulled out his tool and +gritted out--If you're a Lucretia, you've found your Tarquin!" When I +heard this, I shook my fists in Ascyltos' face, "What have you to say for +yourself," I snarled, "you rutting pathic harlot, whose very breath is +infected?" Ascyltos pretended to bristle up and, shaking his fists more +boldly still, he roared: "Won't you keep quiet, you filthy gladiator, you +who escaped from the criminal's cage in the amphitheatre to which you +were condemned (for the murder of your host?) Won't you hold your +tongue, you nocturnal assassin, who, even when you swived it bravely, +never entered the lists with a decent woman in your life? Was I not a +'brother' to you in the pleasure-garden, in the same sense as that in +which this boy now is in this lodging-house?" "You sneaked away from the +master's lecture," I objected. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TENTH. "What should I have done, you triple fool, when I was +dying of hunger? I suppose I should have listened to opinions as much to +the purpose as the tinkle of broken glass or the interpretation of +dreams. By Hercules, you are much more deserving of censure than I, you +who will flatter a poet so as to get an invitation to dinner!" Then we +laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel, and approached more +peaceably whatever remained to be done. But the remembrance of that +injury recurred to my mind and, "Ascyltos," I said, "I know we shall not +be able to agree, so let us divide our little packs of common stock and +try to defeat our poverty by our individual efforts. Both you and I know +letters, but that I may not stand in the way of any undertaking of yours, +I will take up some other profession. Otherwise, a thousand trifles will +bring us into daily collision and furnish cause for gossip through the +whole town." Ascyltos made no objection to this, but merely remarked, +"As we, in our capacity of scholars, have accepted an invitation to +dinner, for this date, let us not lose our night. Since it seems to be +the graceful thing to do, I will look out for another lodging and another +'brother,' tomorrow." "Deferred pleasures are a long time coming," +I sighed. It was lust that made this separation so hasty, for I had, for +a long time, wished to be rid of a troublesome chaperon, so that I could +resume my old relations with my Giton. (Bearing this affront with +difficulty, Ascyltos rushed from the room, without uttering a word. +Such a headlong outburst augured badly, for I well knew his ungovernable +temper and his unbridled passion. On this account, I followed him out, +desirous of fathoming his designs and of preventing their consequences, +but he hid himself skillfully from my eyes, and all in vain, I searched +for him for a long time.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. + +After having had the whole town under my eyes, I returned to the little +room and, having claimed the kisses which were mine in good faith, I +encircled the boy in the closest of embraces and enjoyed the effect of +our happy vows to a point that might be envied. Nor had all the +ceremonies been completed, when Ascyltos stole stealthily up to the +outside of the door and, violently wrenching off the bars, burst in upon +me, toying with my "brother." He filled the little room with his +laughter and hand-clapping, pulled away the cloak which covered us, "What +are you up to now, most sanctimonious 'brother'?" he jeered. "What's +going on here, a blanket-wedding?" Nor did he confine himself to words, +but, pulling the strap off his bag, he began to lash me very thoroughly, +interjecting sarcasms the while, "This is the way you would share with +your comrade, is it!" (The unexpectedness of the thing compelled me to +endure the blows in silence and to put up with the abuse, so I smiled at +my calamity, and very prudently, too, as otherwise I should have been put +to the necessity of fighting with a rival. My pretended good humor +soothed his anger, and at last, Ascyltos smiled as well. "See here, +Encolpius," he said, "are you so engrossed with your debaucheries that +you do not realize that our money is gone, and that what we have left is +of no value? In the summer, times are bad in the city. The country is +luckier, let's go and visit our friends." Necessity compelled the +approval of this plan, and the repression of any sense of injury as well, +so, loading Giton with our packs, we left the city and hastened to the +country-seat of Lycurgus, a Roman knight. Inasmuch as Ascyltos has +formerly served him in the capacity of "brother," he received us royally, +and the company there assembled, rendered our stay still more delightful. +In the first place, there was Tryphaena, a most beautiful woman, who had +come in company with Lycas, the master of a vessel and owner of estates +near the seashore. Although Lycurgus kept a frugal table, the pleasures +we enjoyed in this most enchanting spot cannot be described in words. +Of course you know that Venus joined us all up, as quickly as possible. +The lovely Tryphaena pleased my taste, and listened willingly to my vows, +but hardly had I had time to enjoy her favors when Lycas, in a towering +rage because his preserves had been secretly invaded, demanded that I +indemnify him in her stead. She was an old flame of his, so he broached +the subject of a mutual exchange of favors. Burning with lust, he +pressed his suit, but Tryphaena possessed my heart, and I said Lycas nay. +By refusal, however, he was only made more ardent, followed me +everywhere, entered my room at night, and, after his entreaties had met +with contempt, he had recourse to violence against me, at which I yelled +so lustily that I aroused the entire household, and, by the help of +Lycurgus, I was delivered from the troublesome assault and escaped. At +last, perceiving that the house of Lycurgus was not suitable to the +prosecution of his design, he attempted to persuade me to seek his +hospitality, and when his suggestion was refused, he made use of +Tryphaena's influence over me. She besought me to comply with Lycas' +desires, and she did this all the more readily as by that she hoped to +gain more liberty of action. With affairs in this posture, I follow my +love, but Lycurgus, who had renewed his old relations with Ascyltos, +would not permit him to leave, so it was decided that he should remain +with Lycurgus, but that we would accompany Lycas. Nevertheless, we had +it understood among ourselves that whenever the opportunity presented +itself, we would each pilfer whatever we could lay hands upon, for the +betterment of the common stock. Lycas was highly delighted with my +acceptance of his invitation and hastened our departure, so, bidding our +friends good-bye, we arrived at his place on the very same day. Lycas +had so arranged matters that, on the journey, he sat beside me, while +Tryphaena was next to Giton, the reason for this being his knowledge +of the woman's notorious inconstancy; nor was he deceived, for she +immediately fell in love with the boy, and I easily perceived it. +In addition, Lycas took the trouble of calling my attention to the +situation, and laid stress upon the truth of what we saw. On this +account, I received his advances more graciously, at which he was +overjoyed. He was certain that contempt would be engendered from the +inconstancy of my "sister," with the result that, being piqued at +Tryphaena, I would all the more freely receive his advances. Now this +was the state of affairs at the house of Lycas, Tryphaena was desperately +in love with Giton, Giton's whole soul was aflame for her, neither of +them was a pleasing sight to my eyes, and Lycas, studying to please me, +arranged novel entertainments each day, which Doris, his lovely wife, +seconded to the best of her ability, and so gracefully that she soon +expelled Tryphaena from my heart. A wink of the eye acquainted Doris of +my passion, a coquettish glance informed me of the state of her heart, +and this silent language, anticipating the office of the tongue, secretly +expressed that longing of our souls which we had both experienced at the +same instant. The jealousy of Lycas, already well known to me, was the +cause of my silence, but love itself revealed to the wife the designs +which Lycas had upon me. At our first opportunity of exchanging +confidences, she revealed to me what she had discovered and I candidly +confessed, telling her of the coldness with which I had always met his +advances. The far-sighted woman remarked that it would be necessary for +us to use our wits. It turned out that her advice was sound, for I soon +found out that complacency to the one meant possession of the other. +Giton, in the meantime, was recruiting his exhausted strength, and +Tryphaena turned her attention to me, but, meeting with a repulse, she +flounced out in a rage. The next thing this burning harlot did was to +discover my commerce with both husband and wife. As for his wantonness +with me, she flung that aside, as by it she lost nothing, but she fell +upon the secret gratifications of Doris and made them known to Lycas, +who, his jealousy proving stronger than his lust, took steps to get +revenge. Doris, however, forewarned by Tryphaena's maid, looked out +for squalls and held aloof from any secret assignations. When I became +aware of all this, I heartily cursed the perfidy of Tryphaena and the +ungrateful soul of Lycas, and made up my mind to be gone. Fortune +favored me, as it turned out, for a vessel sacred to Isis and laden with +prize-money had, only the day before, run upon the rocks in the vicinity. +After holding a consultation with Giton, at which he gladly gave consent +to my plan, as Tryphaena visibly neglected him after having sapped his +virility, we hastened to the sea-shore early on the following morning, +and boarded the wreck, a thing easy of accomplishment as the watchmen, +who were in the pay of Lycas, knew us well. But they were so attentive +to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having +left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft +where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and +a silver sistrum. From the master's cabin, I also pilfered other +valuable trifles and, stealthily sliding down a rope, went ashore. Giton +was the only one who saw me and he evaded the watchmen and slipped away +after me. I showed him the plunder, when he joined me, and we decided +to post with all speed to Ascyltos, but we did not arrive at the home of +Lycurgus until the following day. In a few words I told Ascyltos of the +robbery, when he joined us, and of our unfortunate love-affairs as well. +He was for prepossessing the mind of Lycurgus in our favor, naming the +increasing wantonness of Lycas as the cause of our secret and sudden +change of habitation. When Lycurgus had heard everything, he swore +that he would always be a tower of strength between us and our enemies. +Until Tryphaena and Doris were awake and out of bed, our flight remained +undiscovered, for we paid them the homage of a daily attendance at the +morning toilette. When our unwonted absence was noted, Lycas sent out +runners to comb the sea-shore, for he suspected that we had been to the +wreck, but he was still unaware of the robbery, which was yet unknown +because the stern of the wreck was lying away from the beach, and the +master had not, as yet, gone back aboard. Lycas flew into a towering +rage when our flight was established for certain, and railed bitterly at +Doris, whom he considered as the moving factor in it. Of the hard words +and the beating he gave her I will say nothing, for the particulars are +not known to me, but I will affirm that Tryphaena, who was the sole cause +of the unpleasantness, persuaded Lycas to hunt for his fugitives in the +house of Lycurgus, which was our most probable sanctuary. She +volunteered to accompany him in person, so that she could load us with +the abuse which we deserved at her hands. They set out on the following +day and arrived at the estate of Lycurgus, but we were not there, for he +had taken us to a neighboring town to attend the feast of Hercules, which +was there being celebrated. As soon as they found out about this, they +hastened to take to the road and ran right into us in the portico of the +temple. At sight of them, we were greatly put out, and Lycas held forth +violently to Lycurgus, upon the subject of our flight, but he was met +with raised eyebrows and such a scowling forehead that I plucked up +courage and, in a loud voice, passed judgment upon his lewd and base +attempts and assaults upon me, not in the house of Lycurgus alone, but +even under his own roof: and as for the meddling Tryphaena, she received +her just deserts, for, at great length, I described her moral turpitude +to the crowd, our altercation had caused a mob to collect, and, to give +weight to my argument, I pointed to limber-hamed Giton, drained dry, as +it were, and to myself, reduced almost to skin and bones by the raging +lust of that nymphomaniac harlot. So humiliated were our enemies by the +guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot +revenge. As they perceived that we had prepossessed the mind of Lycurgus +in our favor, they decided to await his return, at his estate, in order +that they might wean him away from his misapprehension. As the +solemnities did not draw to a close until late at night, we could not +reach Lycurgus' country place, so he conducted us to a villa of his, +situated near the halfway point of the journey, and, leaving us to sleep +there until the next day, he set off for his estate for the purpose of +transacting some business. Upon his arrival, he found Lycas and +Tryphaena awaiting him, and they stated their case so diplomatically that +they prevailed upon him to deliver us into their hands. Lycurgus, cruel +by nature and incapable of keeping his word, was by this time striving to +hit upon the best method of betraying us, and to that end, he persuaded +Lycas to go for help, while he himself returned to the villa and had us +put under guard. To the villa he came, and greeted us with a scowl as +black as any Lycas himself had ever achieved, clenching his fists again +and again, he charged us with having lied about Lycas, and, turning +Ascyltos out, he gave orders that we were to be kept confined to the room +in which we had retired to rest. Nor would he hear a word in our +defense, from Ascyltos, but, taking the latter with him, he returned to +his estate, reiterating his orders relative to our confinement, which was +to last until his return. On the way back, Ascyltos vainly essayed to +break down Lycurgus' determination, but neither prayers nor caresses, nor +even tears could move him. Thereupon my "brother" conceived the design +of freeing us from our chains, and, antagonized by the stubbornness of +Lycurgus, he positively refused to sleep with him, and through this he +was in a better position to carry out the plan which he had thought out. +When the entire household was buried in its first sleep, Ascyltos loaded +our little packs upon his back and slipped out through a breach in the +wall, which he had previously noted, arriving at the villa with the dawn. +He gained entrance without opposition and found his way to our room, +which the guards had taken the precaution to bar. It was easy to force +an entrance, as the fastening was made of wood, which same he pried off +with a piece of iron. The fall of the lock roused us, for we were +snoring away, in spite of our unfortunate situation. On account of the +long vigil, the guard was in such a deep sleep that we alone were wakened +by the crashing fall of the lock, and Ascyltos, coming in, told us in a +few words what he had done for us; but as far as that goes, not many were +necessary. We were hurriedly dressing, when I was seized with the notion +of killing the guard and stripping the place. This plan I confided to +Ascyltos, who approved of the looting, but pointed out a more desirable +solution without bloodshed: knowing all the crooks and turns, as he did, +he led us to a store-room which he opened. We gathered up all that was +of value and sallied forth while it was yet early in the morning. +Shunning the public roads; we could not rest until we believed ourselves +safe from pursuit. Ascyltos, when he had caught his breath, gloatingly +exulted of the pleasure which the looting of a villa belonging to +Lycurgus, a superlatively avaricious man, afforded him: he complained, +with justice of his parsimony, affirming that he himself had received no +reward for his k-nightly services, that he had been kept at a dry table +and on a skimpy ration of food. This Lycurgus was so stingy that he +denied himself even the necessities of life, his immense wealth to the +contrary notwithstanding.) + + The tortured Tantalus still stands, to parch in his shifting pool, + + And starve, when fruit sways just beyond his grasp: + + The image of the miser rich, when his avaricious soul + + Robs him of food and drink, in Plenty's clasp. + +(Ascyltos was for going to Naples that same day, but I protested the +imprudence of going to any place where they would be on the lookout for +us. "Let's absent ourselves, for a while, and travel in the country. We +are well supplied with means." This advice took his fancy and we set out +for a part of the country noted for the beauty of its estates, and where +not a few of our acquaintances were enjoying the sports of the season. +Scarcely had we covered half the distance, however, before it began to +pour down rain by the bucketful, compelling us to run for the nearest +village. Upon entering the inn, we noticed many other wayfarers, who had +put up there to escape the storm. The jam prevented our being watched, +and at the same time made it easier for us to pry about with curious +eyes, on the alert for something to appropriate. Ascyltos, unseen by +anyone, picked up off the ground a little pouch in which he found some +gold pieces. We were overjoyed with this auspicious beginning, but, +fearing that some one would miss the gold, we stealthily slipped out by +the back door. A slave, who was saddling a horse in the courtyard, +suddenly left his work and went into the house, as if he had forgotten +something, and while he was gone I appropriated a superb mantle which was +tied fast to the saddle, by untying the thongs, then, utilizing a row of +outbuildings for cover, we made off into the nearest wood. When we had +reached the depths of the grove, where we were in safety, we thoroughly +discussed the surest method of secreting our gold, so that we would +neither be accused of robbery nor robbed ourselves, and we finally +decided to sew it into the hem of a ragged tunic, which I threw over my +shoulders, after having turned the mantle over to Ascyltos for +safekeeping; we then made ready to start for the city via the +unfrequented roads. We were just about to emerge from the shelter of +the wood when we heard, from somewhere on our left, "They can't get away, +they came into this wood; let's spread out and beat, and they will easily +be caught!" On hearing this, we were thrown into such a terrible fright +that Ascyltos and Giton dashed away city-ward, through the underbrush, +and I retreated in such a hurry that the precious tunic slipped off my +shoulders without my knowing it. 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. Chagrin restored my strength and +I leaped to my feet to look for the treasure, and for a long time I beat +around in vain. Worn out with work and vexation, I forced my way into +the thickest part of the grove and remained there for four mortal hours, +but at last, bored to extinction by the horrible solitude, I sought a way +out. As I went ahead, I caught sight of a peasant; then I had need of +all my nerve, and it did not fail me. Marching boldly up to him, I asked +my way to the city, complaining that I had been lost in the wood for +several hours. Seeing my condition, he took pity upon me, for I was +covered with mud and paler than death, and asked me whether I had seen +anyone in the place. "Not a soul," I replied, whereupon he kindly +conducted me to the high road, where he met two of his companions, who +informed him that they had beaten along every path in the forest without +having found anything except a tunic, which they showed him. As may be +readily supposed, I did not have the audacity to claim it, though well +aware of its value, and my chagrin became almost insupportable as I +vented many a groaning curse over my lost treasure. The peasants paid +no attention to me, and I was gradually left behind, as my weakness +increased my pace decreased. For this reason, it was late when I reached +the city, and, entering the inn, beheld Ascyltos, stretched out, half +dead, upon a cot. Too far gone to utter a single syllable, I threw +myself upon another. Ascyltos became greatly excited at not seeing the +tunic which he had entrusted to me, demanding it insistently, but I was +so weak that my voice refused its office and I permitted the apathy of my +eyes to answer his demand, then, by and by, regaining my strength little +by little, I related the whole affair to Ascyltos, in every detail. He +thought that I was joking, and although my testimony was fortified by a +copious flood of tears, it could easily be seen that he remained +unconvinced, believing that I wanted to cheat him out of the gold. +Giton, who was standing by during all this, was as downcast as myself, +and the suffering of the lad only served to increase my own vexation, but +the thing which bothered me most of all, was the painstaking search which +was being made for us; I told Ascyltos of this, but he only laughed it +off, as he had so happily extricated himself from the scrape. He was +convinced that, as we were unknown and as no one had seen us, we were +perfectly safe. We decided, nevertheless, to feign sickness, and to keep +to our room as long as possible; but, before we knew it, our money ran +out, and spurred by necessity we were forced to go abroad and sell some +of our plunder.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. + +Twilight was falling, as we entered the market-place, in which we noticed +a quantity of things for sale, not any of much value, it is true, but +such as could be disposed of to the best advantage when the semi-darkness +would serve to hide their doubtful origin. As we had brought our stolen +mantle, we proceeded to make use of so favorable an opportunity, and, in +a secluded spot, displayed a corner of it, hoping the splendid garment +would attract some purchaser. Nor was it long before a certain peasant, +whose face was familiar to my eyes, came up, accompanied by a young +woman, and began to examine the garment very closely. Ascyltos, in turn, +cast a glance at the shoulders of our rustic customer, and was instantly +struck dumb with astonishment. Nor could I myself look upon this man +without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had +picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, +he was! Ascyltos, afraid to believe the evidence of his own eyes for +fear of doing something rash, approached the man, as a prospective buyer, +took the hem of the tunic from the rustic's shoulders, and felt it +thoroughly. + + + + +CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. + +Oh wonderful stroke of Fortune! The peasant had not yet laid his +meddling hands upon the seams, but was scornfully offering the thing for +sale, as though it had been the leavings of some beggar. When Ascyltos +had assured himself that the hoard was intact, and had taken note of the +social status of the seller, he led me a little aside from the crowd and +said, "Do you know, 'brother,' that the treasure about which I was so +worked up has come back to us? That is the little tunic, and it seems +that the gold pieces are still untouched. What ought we to do, and how +shall we make good our claim?" I was overjoyed, not so much at seeing +our booty, as I was for the reason that Fortune had released me from a +very ugly suspicion. I was opposed to doing anything by devious methods, +thinking that should he prove unwilling to restore to the proper owner an +article not his own, it ought to come to a civil action and a judgment +secured. + + + + +CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. + +Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred, "Who knows us +here? Who will place any credence in anything we say? It seems to me +that it would be better to buy, ours though it is, and we know it, and +recover the treasure at small cost, rather than to engage in a doubtful +lawsuit." + + Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, + + Where Poverty can never win its cases? + + Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known + + To often sell the truth, and keep their faces! + + So Justice is at public auction bought, + + The knight gives judgement as Gold says he ought. + +But, with the exception of a two-as piece with which we had intended +purchasing peas and lupines, there was nothing to hand; so, for fear our +loot should escape us in the interim, we resolved to appraise the mantle +at less, and, through a small sacrifice, secure a greater profit. +Accordingly, we spread it out, and the young woman of the covered head, +who was standing by the peasant's side, narrowly inspected the markings, +seized the hem with both hands, and screamed "Thieves!" at the top of her +voice. We were greatly disconcerted at this and, for fear that +inactivity on our part should seem to lend color to her charges, we +laid hold of the dirty ragged tunic, in our turn, and shouted with equal +spite, that this was our property which they had in their possession; but +our cases were by no means on an equality, and the hucksters who had +crowded around us at the uproar, laughed at our spiteful claim, and very +naturally, too, since one side laid claim to a very valuable mantle, +while the other demanded a rag which was not worth a good patch. + + + + +CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. + +Ascyltos, when he had secured silence, adroitly put a stop to their +laughter by exclaiming, "We can see that each puts the greater value upon +his own property. Let them return our tunic to us, and take back their +mantle!" This exchange was satisfactory enough to the peasant and the +young woman, but some night-prowling shyster lawyers, who wished to get +possession of the mantle for their own profit, demanded that both +articles be deposited with them, and the judge could look into the case +on the morrow, for it would appear that the ownership of the articles was +not so much to the point as was the suspicion of robbery that attached +to both sides. The question of sequestration arose, and one of the +hucksters, I do not remember which, but he was bald, and his forehead was +covered with sebaceous wens, and he sometimes did odd jobs for the +lawyers, seized the mantle and vowed that HE would see to it that it was +produced at the proper time and place, but it was easily apparent that he +desired nothing but that the garment should be deposited with thieves, +and vanish; thinking that we would be afraid to appear as claimants for +fear of being charged with crime. As far as we were concerned, we were +as willing as he, and Fortune aided the cause of each of us, for the +peasant, infuriated at our demand that his rags be shown in public, threw +the tunic in Ascyltos' face, released us from responsibility, and +demanded that the mantle, which was the only object of litigation, be +sequestered. As we thought we had recovered our treasure, we returned +hurriedly to the inn, and fastening the door, we had a good laugh at the +shrewdness of the hucksters, and not less so at that of our enemies, for +by it they had returned our money to us. (While we were unstitching the +tunic to get at the gold pieces, we overheard some one quizzing the +innkeeper as to what kind of people those were, who had just entered his +house. Alarmed at this inquiry, I went down, when the questioner had +gone, to find out what was the matter, and learned that the praetor's +lictor, whose duty it was to see that the names of strangers were entered +in his rolls, had seen two people come into the inn, whose names were not +yet entered, and that was the reason he had made inquiry as to their +names and means of support. Mine host furnished this information in such +an offhand manner that I became suspicious as to our entire safety in his +house; so, in order to avoid arrest, we decided to go out, and not to +return home until after dark, and we sallied forth, leaving the +management of dinner to Giton. As it suited our purpose to avoid the +public streets, we strolled through the more unfrequented parts of the +city, and just at dusk we met two women in stolas, in a lonely spot, and +they were by no means homely. Walking softly, we followed them to a +temple which they entered, and from which we could hear a curious +humming, which resembled the sound of voices issuing from the depths of a +cavern. Curiosity impelled us also to enter the temple. There we caught +sight of many women, who resembled Bacchantes, each of whom brandished in +her right hand an emblem of Priapus. We were not permitted to see more, +for as their eyes fell upon us, they raised such a hubbub that the vault +of the temple trembled. They attempted to lay hands upon us, but we ran +back to our inn as fast as we could go.) + + + + +CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. + +We had just disposed of the supper prepared by Giton, when there came a +timid rapping at the door. We turned pale. "Who is there?" we asked. +"Open and you will find out," came the answer. While we were speaking, +the bar fell down of its own accord, the doors flew open and admitted our +visitor. She was the selfsame young lady of the covered head who had but +a little while before stood by the peasant's side. "So you thought," +said she, "that you could make a fool of me, did you? I am Quartilla's +handmaid: Quartilla, whose rites you interrupted in the shrine. She has +come to the inn, in person, and begs permission to speak with you. Don't +be alarmed! She neither blames your mistake nor does she demand +punishment; on the contrary, she wonders what god has brought such +well-bred young gentlemen into her neighborhood!" + + + + +CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. + +We were still holding our tongues and refraining from any expression of +opinion, when the lady herself entered the room, attended by a little +girl. Seating herself upon the bed, she wept for a long time. Not even +then did we interject a single word, but waited, all attention, for what +was to follow these well ordered tears and this show of grief. When the +diplomatic thunderstorm had passed over, she withdrew her haughty head +from her mantle and, ringing her hands until the joints cracked, "What is +the meaning of such audacity?" she demanded; "where did you learn such +tricks? They are worthy of putting to shame the assurance of all the +robbers of the past! I pity you, so help me the God of Truth, I do; for +no one can look with impunity upon that which it is unlawful for him to +see. In our neighborhood, there are so many gods that it is easier to +meet one than it is to find a man! But do not think that I was actuated +by any desire for revenge when I came here: I am more moved by your age +than I am by my own injury, for it is my belief that youthful imprudence +led you into committing a sacrilegious crime. That very night, I tossed +so violently in the throes of a dangerous chill that I was afraid I had +contracted a tertian ague, and in my dreams I prayed for a medicine. I +was ordered to seek you out, and to arrest the progress of the disease by +means of an expedient to be suggested by your wonderful penetration! The +cure does not matter so much, however, for a deeper grief gnaws at my +vitals and drags me down, almost to the very doors of death itself. I am +afraid that, with the careless impulsiveness of youth, you may divulge, +to the common herd, what you witnessed in the shrine of Priapus, and +reveal the rites of the gods to the rabble. On this account, I stretch +out my suppliant hands to your knees, and beg and pray that you do not +make a mockery and a joke of our nocturnal rites, nor lay bare the +secrets of so many years, into which scarcely a thousand persons are +initiated." + + + + +CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. + +The tears poured forth again, after this appeal, and, shaken by deep +sobs, she buried her whole face and breast in my bed; and I, moved by +pity and by apprehension, begged her to be of good cheer and to make +herself perfectly easy as to both of those issues, for not only would we +not betray any secrets to the rabble, but we would also second divine +providence, at any peril to ourselves, if any god had indicated to her +any cure for her tertian ague. The woman cheered up at this promise, and +smothered me with kisses; from tears she passed to laughter, and fell to +running her fingers through the long hair that hung down about my ears. +"I will declare a truce with you," she said, "and withdraw my complaint. +But had you been unwilling to administer the medicine which I seek, I had +a troop in readiness for the morrow, which would have exacted +satisfaction for my injury and reparation for my dignity! + + To be flouted is disgraceful, but to dictate terms, sublime + + Pleased am I to choose what course I will, + + Even sages will retort an insult at the proper tune. + + Victor most is he who does not kill." + +Then she suddenly clapped her hands, and broke into such a peal of +laughter that we were alarmed. The maid, who had been the first to +arrive, did likewise, on one side of us, as also did the little girl who +had entered with the madame herself. + + + + +CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. + +The whole place was filled with mocking laughter, and we, who could see +no reason for such a change of front, stared blankly at each other and +then at the women. (Then Quartilla spoke up, finally,) "I gave orders +that no mortal man should be admitted into this inn, this day, so that I +could receive the treatment for my ague without interruption!" Ascyltos +was, for the moment, struck dumb by this admission of Quartilla's, and I +turned colder than a Gallic winter, and could not utter a word; but the +personnel of the company relieved me from the fear that the worst might +be yet to come, for they were only three young women, too weak to attempt +any violence against us, who were of the male sex, at least, even if we +had nothing else of the man about us, and this was an asset. Then, too, +we were girded higher, and I had so arranged matters that if it came to a +fight, I would engage Quartilla myself, Ascyltos the maid, and Giton the +girl. (While I was turning over this plan in my mind, Quartilla came to +close quarters, to receive the treatment for her ague, but having her +hopes disappointed, she flounced out in a rage and, returning in a little +while, she had us overpowered by some unknown vagabonds, and gave orders +for us to be carried away to a splendid palace.) Then our determination +gave place to astonishment, and death, sure and certain, began to obscure +the eyes of suffering. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. + +"Pray; madame," I groaned, "if you have anything worse in store, bring it +on quickly for we have not committed a crime so heinous as to merit death +by torture." The maid, whose name was Psyche, quickly spread a blanket +upon the floor (and) sought to secure an erection by fondling my member, +which was already a thousand times colder than death. Ascyltos, well +aware by now of the danger of dipping into the secrets of others, covered +his head with his mantle. (In the meantime,) the maid took two ribbons +from her bosom and bound our feet with one and our hands with the other. +(Finding myself trussed up in this fashion, I remarked, "You will not be +able to cure your mistress' ague in this manner!" "Granted," the maid +replied, "but I have other and surer remedies at hand," she brought me a +vessel full of satyrion, as she said this, and so cheerfully did she +gossip about its virtues that I drank down nearly all of the liquor, and +because Ascyltos had but a moment before rejected her advances, she +sprinkled the dregs upon his back, without his knowing it.) When this +repartee had drawn to a close, Ascyltos exclaimed, "Don't I deserve a +drink?" Given away by my laughter, the maid clapped her hands and cried, +"I put one by you, young man; did you drink so much all by yourself?" +"What's that you say?", Quartilla chimed in. "Did Encolpius drink all +the satyrion there was in the house?" And she laughed delightfully until +her sides shook. Finally not even Giton himself could resist a smile, +especially when the little girl caught him around the neck and showered +innumerable kisses upon him, and lie not at all averse to it. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. + +We would have cried aloud in our misery but there was no one to give us +any help, and whenever I attempted to shout, "Help! all honest +citizens," Psyche would prick my cheeks with her hairpin, and the little +girl would intimidate Ascyltos with a brush dipped in satyrion. Then a +catamite appeared, clad in a myrtle-colored frieze robe, and girded round +with a belt. One minute he nearly gored us to death with his writhing +buttocks, and the next, he befouled us so with his stinking kisses that +Quartilla, with her robe tucked high, held up her whalebone wand and +ordered him to give the unhappy wretches quarter. Both of us then took a +most solemn oath that so dread a secret should perish with us. Several +wrestling instructors appeared and refreshed us, worn out as we were, by +a massage with pure oil, and when our fatigue had abated, we again donned +our dining clothes and were escorted to the next room, in which were +placed three couches, and where all the essentials necessary to a +splendid banquet were laid out in all their richness. We took our +places, as requested, and began with a wonderful first course. We were +all but submerged in Falernian wine. When several other courses had +followed, and we were endeavoring to keep awake Quartilla exclaimed, "How +dare you think of going to sleep when you know that the vigil of Priapus +is to be kept?" + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. + +Worn out by all his troubles, Ascyltos commenced to nod, and the maid, +whom he had slighted, and of course insulted, smeared lampblack all over +his face, and painted his lips and shoulders with vermillion, while he +drowsed. Completely exhausted by so many untoward adventures, I, too, +was enjoying the shortest of naps, the whole household, within and +without, was doing the same, some were lying here and there asleep at our +feet, others leaned against the walls, and some even slept head to head +upon the threshold itself; the lamps, failing because of a lack of oil, +shed a feeble and flickering light, when two Syrians, bent upon stealing +an amphora of wine, entered the dining-room. While they were greedily +pawing among the silver, they pulled the amphora in two, upsetting the +table with all the silver plate, and a cup, which had flown pretty high, +cut the head of the maid, who was drowsing upon a couch. She screamed at +that, thereby betraying the thieves and wakening some of the drunkards. +The Syrians, who had come for plunder, seeing that they were about to be +detected, were so quick to throw themselves down besides a couch and +commence to snore as if they had been asleep for a long time, that you +would have thought they belonged there. The butler had gotten up and +poured oil in the flickering lamps by this time, and the boys, having +rubbed their eyes open, had returned to their duty, when in came a female +cymbal player and the crashing brass awoke everybody. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD. + +The banquet began all over again, and Quartilla challenged us to a +drinking-bout, the crash of the cymbals lending ardor to her revel. +A catamite appeared, the stalest of all mankind, well worthy of that +house. Heaving a sigh, he wrung his hands until the joints cracked, +and spouted out the following verses, + + "Hither, hither quickly gather, pathic companions boon; + Artfully stretch forth your limbs and on with the dance and play! + Twinkling feet and supple thighs and agile buttocks in tune, + Hands well skilled in raising passions, Delian eunuchs gay!" + +When he had finished his poetry, he slobbered a most evil-smelling kiss +upon me, and then, climbing upon my couch, he proceeded with all his +might and main to pull all of my clothing off. I resisted to the limit +of my strength. He manipulated my member for a long time, but all in +vain. Gummy streams poured down his sweating forehead, and there was so +much chalk in the wrinkles of his cheeks that you might have mistaken his +face for a roofless wall, from which the plaster was crumbling in a rain. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. + +Driven to the last extremity, I could no longer keep back the tears. +"Madame," I burst out, "is this the night-cap which you ordered served to +me?" Clapping her hands softly she cried out, "Oh you witty rogue, you +are a fountain of repartee, but you never knew before that a catamite was +called a k-night-cap, now did you?" Then, fearing my companion would come +off better than I, "Madame," I said, "I leave it to your sense of +fairness: is Ascyltos to be the only one in this dining-room who keeps +holiday?" "Fair enough," conceded Quartilla, "let Ascyltos have his +k-night-cap too!" On hearing that, the catamite changed mounts, and, +having bestridden my comrade, nearly drove him to distraction with his +buttocks and his kisses. Giton was standing between us and splitting his +sides with laughter when Quartilla noticed him, and actuated by the +liveliest curiosity, she asked whose boy he was, and upon my answering +that he was my "brother," "Why has he not kissed me then?" she +demanded. Calling him to her, she pressed a kiss upon his mouth, then +putting her hand beneath his robe, she took hold of his little member, as +yet so undeveloped. "This," she remarked, "shall serve me very well +tomorrow, as a whet to my appetite, but today I'll take no common fare +after choice fish!" + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. + +She was still talking when Psyche, who was giggling, came to her side and +whispered something in her ear. What it was, I did not catch. "By all +means," ejaculated Quartilla, "a brilliant idea! Why shouldn't our +pretty little Pannychis lose her maidenhead when the opportunity is so +favorable?" A little girl, pretty enough, too, was led in at once; she +looked to be not over seven years of age, and she was the same one who +had before accompanied Quartilla to our room. Amidst universal applause, +and in response to the demands of all, they made ready to perform the +nuptial rites. I was completely out of countenance, and insisted that +such a modest boy as Giton was entirely unfitted for such a wanton part, +and moreover, that the child was not of an age at which she could receive +that which a woman must take. "Is that so," Quartilla scoffed, "is she +any younger than I was, when I submitted to my first man? Juno, my +patroness, curse me if I can remember the time when I ever was a virgin, +for I diverted myself with others of my own age, as a child then as the +years passed, I played with bigger boys, until at last I reached my +present age. I suppose that this explains the origin of the proverb, +'Who carried the calf may carry the bull,' as they say." As I feared +that Giton might run greater risk if I were absent, I got up to take +part in the ceremony. + + + + +CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH. + +Psyche had already enveloped the child's head in the bridal-veil, the +catamite, holding a torch, led the long procession of drunken women which +followed; they were clapping their hands, having previously decked out +the bridal-bed with a suggestive drapery. Quartilla, spurred on by the +wantonness of the others, seized hold of Giton and drew him into the +bridal-chamber. There was no doubt of the boy's perfect willingness to +go, nor was the girl at all alarmed at the name of marriage. When they +were finally in bed, and the door shut, we seated ourselves outside the +door of the bridal-chamber, and Quartilla applied a curious eye to a +chink, purposely made, watching their childish dalliance with lascivious +attention. She then drew me gently over to her side that I might share +the spectacle with her, and when we both attempted to peep our faces were +pressed against each other; whenever she was not engrossed in the +performance, she screwed up her lips to meet mine, and pecked at me +continually with furtive kisses. [A thunderous hammering was heard at +the door, while all this was going on, and everyone wondered what this +unexpected interruption could mean, when we saw a soldier, one of the +night-watch, enter with a drawn sword in his hand, and surrounded by a +crowd of young rowdies. He glared about him with savage eyes and +blustering mien, and, catching sight of Quartilla, presently, "What's up +now, you shameless woman," he bawled; "what do you mean by making game of +me with lying promises, and cheating me out of the night you promised me? +But you won't get off unpunished You and that lover of yours are going to +find out that I'm a man!" At the soldier's orders, his companion bound +Quartilla and myself together, mouth to mouth, breast to breast, and +thigh to thigh; and not without a great deal of laughter. Then the +catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with +the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly +from, nor in any other way avoid. Finally, he ravished me, and worked +his entire pleasure upon me. In the meantime, the satyrion which I had +drunk only a little while before spurred every nerve to lust and I began +to gore Quartilla impetuously, and she, burning with the same passion, +reciprocated in the game. The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved +were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest +of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as +rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me. While +this was going on, Pannychis, unaccustomed at her tender years to the +pastime of Venus, raised an outcry and attracted the attention of the +soldier, by this unexpected howl of consternation, for this slip of a +girl was being ravished, and Giton the victor, had won a not bloodless +victory. Aroused by what he saw, the soldier rushed upon them, seizing +Pannychis, then Giton, then both of them together, in a crushing embrace. +The virgin burst into tears and plead with him to remember her age, but +her prayers availed her nothing, the soldier only being fired the more by +her childish charms. Pannychis covered her head at last, resolved to +endure whatever the Fates had in store for her. At this instant, an old +woman, the very same who had tricked me on that day when I was hunting +for our lodging, came to the aid of Pannychis, as though she had dropped +from the clouds. With loud cries, she rushed into the house, swearing +that a gang of footpads was prowling about the neighborhood and the +people invoked the help of "All honest men," in vain, for the members of +the night-watch were either asleep or intent upon some carouse, as they +were nowhere to be found. Greatly terrified at this, the soldier rushed +headlong from Quartilla's house. His companions followed after him, +freeing Pannychis from impending danger and relieving the rest of us from +our fear.] (I was so weary of Quartilla's lechery that I began to +meditate means of escape. I made my intentions known to Ascyltos, who, +as he wished to rid himself of the importunities of Psyche, was +delighted; had not Giton been shut up in the bridal-chamber, the plan +would have presented no difficulties, but we wished to take him with us, +and out of the way of the viciousness of these prostitutes. We were +anxiously engaged in debating this very point, when Pannychis fell out of +bed, and dragged Giton after her, by her own weight. He was not hurt, +but the girl gave her head a slight bump, and raised such a clamor that +Quartilla, in a terrible fright, rushed headlong into the room, giving us +the opportunity of making off. We did not tarry, but flew back to our +inn where,) throwing ourselves upon the bed, we passed the remainder of +the night without fear. (Sallying forth next day, we came upon two of +our kidnappers, one of whom Ascyltos savagely attacked the moment he set +eyes upon him, and, after having thrashed and seriously wounded him, +he ran to my aid against the other. He defended himself so stoutly, +however, that he wounded us both, slightly, and escaped unscathed.) The +third day had now dawned, the date set for the free dinner (at +Trimalchio's,) but battered as we were, flight seemed more to our taste +than quiet, so (we hastened to our inn and, as our wounds turned out to +be trifling, we dressed them with vinegar and oil, and went to bed. The +ruffian whom we had done for, was still lying upon the ground and we +feared detection.) Affairs were at this pass, and we were framing +melancholy excuses with which to evade the coming revel, when a slave of +Agamemnon's burst in upon our trembling conclave and said, "Don't you +know with whom your engagement is today? The exquisite Trimalchio, who +keeps a clock and a liveried bugler in his dining-room, so that he can +tell, instantly, how much of his life has run out!" 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C. Firebaugh, +in which are incorporated the forgeries of Nodot and Marchena, +and the readings introduced into the text by De Salas.</i></blockquote> +</blockquote> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<a name="pfront"></a><img alt="pfront.jpg (108K)" src="pfront.jpg" height="829" width="599"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<center><h2>PREFACE</h2></center> +<p>Among the difficulties which beset the path of the conscientious +translator, a sense of his own unworthiness must ever take precedence; +but another, scarcely less disconcerting, is the likelihood of +misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the author +and his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, +is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of a later +generation. + +<p>A translation worthy of the name is as much the product of a literary +epoch as it is of the brain and labor of a scholar; and Melmouth's +version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made, as it was, at a +period when the art of English letter writing had attained its highest +excellence, may well be the despair of our twentieth century apostles of +specialization. Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass +with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of +that masterpiece? Who could rival Arthur Golding's rendering of the +Metamorphoses of Ovid, or Francis Hicke's masterly rendering of Lucian's +True History? But eternal life means endless change and in nothing is +this truth more strikingly manifest than in the growth and decadence of +living languages and in the translation of dead tongues into the ever +changing tissue of the living. Were it not for this, no translation +worthy of the name would ever stand in need of revision, except in +instances where the discovery and collation of fresh manuscripts had +improved the text. In the case of an author whose characters speak in +the argot proper to their surroundings, the necessity for revision is +even more imperative; the change in the cultured speech of a language is +a process that requires years to become pronounced, the evolution of +slang is rapid and its usage ephemeral. For example Stephen Gaselee, in +his bibliography of Petronius, calls attention to Harry Thurston Peck's +rendering of "bell um pomum" by "he's a daisy," and remarks, +appropriately enough, "that this was well enough for 1898; but we would +now be more inclined to render it "he's a peach." Again, Peck renders +"illud erat vivere" by "that was life," but, in the words of our lyric +American jazz, we would be more inclined to render it "that was the +life." "But," as Professor Gaselee has said, "no rendering of this part +of the Satyricon can be final, it must always be in the slang of the +hour." + +<p>"Some," writes the immortal translator of Rabelais, in his preface, +"have deservedly gained esteem by translating; yet not many condescend +to translate but such as cannot invent; though to do the first well, +requires often as much genius as to do the latter. I wish, reader, +thou mayest be as willing to do the author justice, as I have strove +to do him right." + +<p>Many scholars have lamented the failure of Justus Lipsius to comment upon +Petronius or edit an edition of the Satyricon. Had he done so, he might +have gone far toward piercing the veil of darkness which enshrouds the +authorship of the work and the very age in which the composer flourished. +To me, personally, the fact that Laurence Sterne did not undertake a +version, has caused much regret. The master who delineated Tristram +Shandy's father and the intrigue between the Widow Wadman and Uncle Toby +would have drawn Trimalchio and his peers to admiration. + +<p> W. C. F. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>CONTENTS:</h2> + +<br> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<h4><a href="#PREFACE">PREFACE</a></h4> +<h4><a href="#INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION</a></h4> +<h5><a href="#THE AUTHOR">THE AUTHOR</a></h5> +<h5><a href="#REALISM">REALISM</a></h5> +<h5><a href="#FORGERIES">FORGERIES</a></h5> +</blockquote></blockquote> +<h4><a href="#THE SATYRICON">THE SATYRICON</a></h4> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<h5><a href="#VOLUME I.">VOLUME I.</a></h5> +</blockquote></blockquote> +<br> +<br> +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS:</h2> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p><a href="#pfront">The Witches [Frontpiece]</a> +<p><a href="#p006">An Extemporary Declamation</a> +<p><a href="#p010">An Old Herb Woman</a> +<p><a href="#p012">Hurrying to the Inn</a> +<p><a href="#p020">Making Off</a> +<p><a href="#p024">Tryphena</a> +<p><a href="#p044">The Holy Mysteries</a> +<p><a href="#p046">Quartilla</a> +<p><a href="#p048">Psyche</a> +<p><a href="#p050">The Catamite</a> +<p><a href="#p052">The Debauch</a> +<p><a href="#p054">The Drunkards</a> +<p><a href="#p056">Quartilla and Giton</a> +<p><a href="#p058">The Chink in the Door</a> +<p><a href="#p062">Pannychis</a> + +</blockquote></blockquote> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION.</h2> + +<br> +<p>Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to +modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few +have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this +scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to +that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance +and dictator of fashion. The flashing, wit, the masterly touches which +bring out the characters with all the detail of a fine old copper +etching; the marvelous use of realism by this, its first prophet; the +sure knowledge of the perspective and background best adapted to each +episode; the racy style, so smooth, so elegant, so simple when the +educated are speaking, beguile the reader and blind him, at first, to the +many discrepancies and incoherences with which the text, as we have it, +is marred. The more one concentrates upon this author, the more apparent +these faults become and the more one regrets the lacunae in the text. +Notwithstanding numerous articles which deal with this work, some from +the pens of the most profound scholars, its author is still shrouded in +the mists of uncertainty and conjecture. He is as impersonal as +Shakespeare, as aloof as Flaubert, in the opinion of Charles Whibley, +and, it may be added, as genial as Rabelais; an enigmatic genius whose +secret will never be laid bare with the resources at our present command. +As I am not writing for scholars, I do not intend going very deeply into +the labyrinth of critical controversy which surrounds the author and the +work, but I shall deal with a few of the questions which, if properly +understood, will enhance the value of the Satyricon, and contribute, in +some degree, to a better understanding of the author. For the sake of +convenience the questions discussed in this introduction will be arranged +in the following order: +<br> +<br> +<blockquote> +<p> 1. The Satyricon. +<p> 2. The Author. +<p> a His Character. +<p> b His Purpose in Writing. +<p> c Time in which the Action is placed. +<p> d Localization of the Principal Episode. +<p> 3. Realism. +<p> a Influence of the Satyricon upon the Literature of the World. +<p> 4. The Forgeries. +</blockquote> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>I</h2> + +<br> +<h3>THE SATYRICON.</h3> +<br> +<p>Heinsius and Scaliger derive the word from the Greek, +whence comes our English word satyr, but Casaubon, Dacier and Spanheim +derive it from the Latin 'satura,' a plate filled with different kinds +of food, and they refer to Porphyrion's 'multis et variis rebus hoc +carmen refertum est.' + +<p>The text, as we possess it, may be divided into three divisions: the +first and last relate the adventures of Encolpius and his companions, the +second, which is a digression, describes the Dinner of Trimalchio. That +the work was originally divided into books, we had long known from +ancient glossaries, and we learn, from the title of the Traguriensian +manuscript, that the fragments therein contained are excerpts from the +fifteenth and sixteenth books. An interpolation of Fulgentius (Paris +7975) attributes to Book Fourteen the scene related in Chapter 20 of the +work as we have it, and the glossary of St. Benedict Floriacensis cites +the passage 'sed video te totum in illa haerere, quae Troiae halosin +ostendit (Chapter 89), as from Book Fifteen. As there is no reason to +suppose that the chapters intervening between the end of the Cena +(Chapter 79) and Chapter 89 are out of place, it follows that this +passage may have belonged to Book Sixteen, or even Seventeen, but that it +could not have belonged to Book Fifteen. From the interpolation of +Fulgentius we may hazard the opinion that the beginning of the fragments, +as we possess them (Chapters 1 to 26), form part of Book Fourteen. The +Dinner of Trimalchio probably formed a complete book, fifteen, and the +continuation of the adventures of Encolpius down to his meeting with +Eumolpus (end of Chapter 140) Book Sixteen. The discomfiture of Eumolpus +should have closed this book but not the entire work, as the exit of the +two principal characters is not fixed at the time our fragments come to +an end. The original work, then, would probably have exceeded Tom Jones +in length. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>II</h2> + +<br> +<h3><a name="THE AUTHOR"></a>THE AUTHOR.</h3> +<br> +<p><b>a--</b>"Not often," says Studer (Rheinisches Museum, 1843), "has there been +so much dispute about the author, the times, the character and the +purpose of a writing of antiquity as about the fragments of the Satyricon +of Petronius." The discovery and publication of the Trau manuscript +brought about a literary controversy which has had few parallels, and +which has not entirely died out to this day, although the best +authorities ascribe the work to Caius Petronius, the Arbiter Elegantiarum +at the court of Nero. "The question as to the date of the narrative of +the adventures of Encolpius and his boon companions must be regarded as +settled," says Theodor Mommsen (Hermes, 1878); "this narrative is +unsurpassed in originality and mastery of treatment among the writings of +Roman literature. Nor does anyone doubt the identity of its author and +the Arbiter Elegantiarum of Nero, whose end Tacitus relates." + +<p>In any case, the author of this work, if it be the work of one brain, +must have been a profound psychologist, a master of realism, +a natural-born story teller, and a gentleman. + +<p><b>b--</b>His principal object in writing the work was to amuse but, in amusing, +he also intended to pillory the aristocracy and his wit is as keen as the +point of a rapier; but, when we bear in mind the fact that he was an +ancient, we will find that his cynicism is not cruel, in him there is +none of the malignity of Aristophanes; there is rather the attitude of +the refined patrician who is always under the necessity of facing those +things which he holds most in contempt, the supreme artist who suffers +from the multitude of bill-boards, so to speak, who lashes the posters +but holds in pitying contempt those who know so little of true art that +they mistake those posters for the genuine article. Niebuhr's estimate +of his character is so just and free from prejudice, and proceeds from +a mind which, in itself, was so pure and wholesome, that I will quote it: + +<p>"All great dramatic poets are endowed with the power of creating beings +who seem to act and speak with perfect independence, so that the poet is +nothing more than the relator of what takes place. When Goethe had +conceived Faust and Margarete, Mephistopheles and Wagner, they moved and +had their being without any exercise of his will. But in the peculiar +power which Petronius exercises, in its application to every scene, to +every individual character, in everything, noble or mean, which he +undertakes, I know of but one who is fully equal to the Roman, and that +is Diderot. Trimalchio and Agamemnon might have spoken for Petronius, +and the nephew Rameau and the parson Papin for Diderot, in every +condition and on every occasion inexhaustibly, out of their own nature; +just so the purest and noblest souls, whose kind was, after all, not +entirely extinct in their day. + +<p>"Diderot and a contemporary, related to him in spirit, Count Gaspar +Gozzi, are marked with the same cynicism which disfigures the Roman; +their age, like his, had become shameless. But as the two former were in +their heart noble, upright, and benevolent men, and as in the writings of +Diderot genuine virtue and a tenderness unknown to his contemporaries +breathe, so the peculiarity of such a genius can, as it seems, be given +to a noble and elevated being only. The deep contempt for prevailing +immorality which naturally leads to cynicism, and a heart which beats for +everything great and glorious,--virtues which then had no +existence,--speak from the pages of the Roman in a language intelligible to every +susceptible heart." + +<p><b>c--</b>Beck, in his paper, "The Age of Petronius Arbiter," concluded that the +author lived and wrote between the years 6 A.D. and 34 A.D., but he +overlooked the possibility that the author might have lived a few years +later, written of conditions as they were in his own times, and yet laid +the action of his novel a few years before. Mommsen and Haley place the +time under Augustus, Buecheler, about 36-7 A.D., and Friedlaender under +Nero. + +<p><b>d--</b>La Porte du Theil places the scene at Naples because of the fact the +city in which our heroes met Agamemnon must have been of some +considerable size because neither Encolpius nor Asclytos could find their +way back to their inn, when once they had left it, because both were +tired out from tramping around in search of it and because Giton had been +so impressed with this danger that he took the precaution to mark the +pillars with chalk in order that they might not be lost a second time. +The Gulf of Naples is the only bit of coastline which fits the needs of +the novel, hence the city must be Naples. The fact that neither of the +characters knew the city proves that they had been recent arrivals, and +this furnishes a clue, vague though it is, to what may have gone before. + +<p>Haley, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," vol. II, makes out a +very strong case for Puteoli, and his theory of the old town and the new +town is as ingenious as it is able. Haley also has Trimalchio in his +favor, as has also La Porte du Theil. "I saw the Sibyl at Cumae," says +Trimalchio. Now if the scene of the dinner is actually at Cumae this +sounds very peculiar; it might even be a gloss added by some copyist +whose knowledge was not equal to his industry. On the other hand, +suppose Trimalchio is speaking of something so commonplace in his +locality that the second term has become a generic, then the difficulty +disappears. We today, even though standing upon the very spot in Melos +where the Venus was unearthed, would still refer to her as the Venus de +Melos. Friedlaender, in bracketing Cumis, has not taken this +sufficiently into consideration. Mommsen, in an excellent paper (Hermes, +1878), has laid the scene at Cumae. His logic is almost unanswerable, +and the consensus of opinion is in favor of the latter town. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h2>III</h2> +<br> +<h3><a name="REALISM"></a>REALISM.</h3> +<br> +<p>Realism, as we are concerned with it, may be defined as the +literary effect produced by the marshaling of details in their exactitude +for the purpose of bringing out character. The fact that they may be +ugly and vulgar the reverse, makes not the slightest difference. The +modern realist contemplates the inanimate things which surround us with +peculiar complaisance, and it is right that he should as these things +exert upon us a constant and secret influence. The workings of the human +mind, in complex civilizations, are by no means simple; they are involved +and varied: our thoughts, our feelings, our wills, associate themselves +with an infinite number of sensations and images which play one upon the +other, and which individualize, in some measure, every action we commit, +and stamp it. The merit of our modern realists lies in the fact that +they have studied the things which surround us and our relations to them, +and thus have they been able to make their creations conform to human +experience. The ancients gave little attention to this; the man, with +them, was the important thing; the environment the unimportant. There +are, of course, exceptions; the interview between Ulysses and Nausiskaa +is probably the most striking. From the standpoint of environment, +Petronius, in the greater portion of his work, is an ancient; but one +exception there is, and it is as brilliant as it is important. The +entire episode, in which Trimalchio figures, offers an incredible +abundance of details. The descriptions are exhaustive and minute, but +the author's prime purpose was not description, it was to bring out the +characters, it was to pillory the Roman aristocracy, it was to amuse! +Cicero, in his prosecution of Verres, had shown up this aristocracy in +all its brutality and greed, it remained for the author of the Cena to +hold its absurdity up to the light of day, to lash an extravagance which, +though utterly unbridled, was yet unable to exhaust the looted +accumulations of years of political double dealing and malfeasance in +office. Trimalchio's introduction is a masterstroke, the porter at the +door is another, the effect of the wine upon the women, their jealousy +lest either's husband should seem more liberal, their appraisal of each +other's jewelry, Scintilla's remark anent the finesse of Habinnas' +servant in the mere matter of pandering, the blear-eyed and black-toothed +slave, teasing a little bitch disgustingly fat, offering her pieces of +bread and when, from sheer inability, she refuses to eat, cramming it +down her throat, the effect of the alcohol upon Trimalchio, the little +old lady girded round with a filthy apron, wearing clogs which were not +mates, dragging in a huge dog on a chain, the incomparable humor in the +passage in which Hesus, desperately seasick, sees that which makes him +believe that even worse misfortunes are in store for him: these details +are masterpieces of realism. The description of the night-prowling +shyster lawyer, whose forehead is covered with sebaceous wens, is the +very acme of propriety; our first meeting; with the poet Eumolpus is a +beautiful study in background and perspective. Nineteen centuries have +gone their way since this novel was written, but if we look about us we +will be able to recognize, under the veneer of civilization, the +originals of the Satyricon and we will find that here, in a little corner +of the Roman world, all humanity was held in miniature. Petronius must +be credited with the great merit of having introduced realism into the +novel. By an inspiration of genius, he saw that the framework of +frivolous and licentious novels could be enlarged until it took in +contemporary custom and environment. It is that which assures for him +an eminent place, not in Roman literature alone, but in the literature +of the world. + +<p><b>a--</b>INFLUENCE OF THE SATYRICON UPON LITERATURE. The vagrant heroes of +Petronius are the originals from whom directly, or indirectly, later +authors drew that inspiration which resulted in the great mass of +picaresque fiction; but, great as this is, it is not to this that the +Satyricon owes its powerful influence upon the literature of the world. +It is to the author's recognition of the importance of environment, +of the vital role of inanimate surroundings as a means for bringing out +character and imbuing his episodes and the actions of his characters with +an air of reality and with those impulses and actions which are common to +human experience, that his influence is due. By this, the Roman created +a new style of writing and inaugurated a class of literature which was +without parallel until the time of Apuleius and, in a lesser degree, of +Lucian. This class of literature, though modified essentially from age +to age, in keeping with the dictates of moral purity or bigotry, innocent +or otherwise, has come to be the very stuff of which literary success in +fiction is made. One may write a successful book without a thread of +romance; one cannot write a successful romance without some knowledge of +realism; the more intimate the knowledge the better the book, and it is +frequently to this that the failure of a novel is due, although the +critic might be at a loss to explain it. Petronius lies behind Tristram +Shandy, his influence can be detected in Smollett, and even Fielding paid +tribute to him. + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>IV</h2> +<br> +<h3><a name="FORGERIES"></a>FORGERIES OF PETRONIUS.</h3> +<br> +<p>From the very nature of the writings of such an author as Petronius, it +is evident that the gaps in the text would have a marked tendency to +stimulate the curiosity of literary forgers and to tempt their sagacity, +literary or otherwise. The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and +the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes +emendandi." + +<p>When, circa 1650, the library of the unfortunate Nicolas Cippico yielded +up the Trau fragment, the news of this discovery spread far and wide and +about twelve years later, Statileo, in response to the repeated requests +of the Venetian ambassador, Pietro Basadonna, made with his own hand a +copy of the MS., which he sent to Basadonna. The ambassador, in turn, +permitted this MS. to be printed by one Frambotti, a printer endowed with +more industry than critical acumen, and the resultant textual conflation +had much to do with the pamphlet war which followed. Had this Paduan +printer followed the explicit directions which he received, and printed +exactly what was given him much good paper might have been saved and a +very interesting chapter in the history of literary forgery would +probably never have been written. The pamphlet war did not die out until +Bleau, in 1670-71, printed his exact reproduction of the Trau manuscript +and the corrections introduced by that licentiousness of emendation of +which we have spoken. + +<p>In October, 1690, Francois Nodot, a French soldier of fortune, a +commissary officer who combined belles lettres and philosophy with his +official duties, wrote to Charpentier, President of the Academy of +France, calling, his attention to a copy of a manuscript which he (Nodot) +possessed, and which came into his hands in the following manner: one +Du Pin, a French officer detailed to service with Austria, had been +present at the sack of Belgrade in 1688. That this Du Pin had, while +there, made the acquaintance of a certain Greek renegade, having, as a +matter of fact, stayed in the house of this renegade. The Greek's +father, a man of some learning, had by some means come into possession of +the MS., and Du Pin, in going through some of the books in the house, had +come across it. He had experienced the utmost difficulty in deciphering +the letters, and finally, driven by curiosity, had retained a copyist and +had it copied out. That this Du Pin had this copy in his house at +Frankfort, and that he had given Nodot to understand that if he (Nodot) +came to Frankfort, he would be permitted to see this copy. Owing to the +exigencies of military service, Nodot had been unable to go in person to +Frankfort, and that he had therefore availed himself of the friendly +interest and services of a certain merchant of Frankfort, who had +volunteered to find an amanuensis, have a copy made, and send it to +Nodot. This was done, and Nodot concludes his letter to Charpentier by +requesting the latter to lay the result before the Academy and ask for +their blessing and approval. These Nodotian Supplements were accepted as +authentic by the Academics of Arles and Nimes, as well as by Charpentier. +In a short time, however, the voices of scholarly skeptics began to be +heard in the land, and accurate and unbiased criticism laid bare the +fraud. The Latinity was attacked and exception taken to Silver Age +prose in which was found a French police regulation which required newly +arrived travellers to register their names in the book of a police +officer of an Italian village of the first century. Although they are +still retained in the text by some editors, this is done to give some +measure of continuity to an otherwise interrupted narrative, but they can +only serve to distort the author and obscure whatever view of him the +reader might otherwise have reached. They are generally printed between +brackets or in different type. + +<p>In 1768 another and far abler forger saw the light of day. Jose +Marchena, a Spaniard of Jewish extraction, was destined for an +ecclesiastical career. He received an excellent education which served +to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism. In +his early youth he showed a marked preference for uncanonical pursuits +and heretical doctrines and before he had reached his thirtieth year +prudence counseled him to prevent the consequences of his heresy and +avoid the too pressing Inquisition by a timely flight into France. +He arrived there in time to throw himself into the fight for liberty, +and in 1800 we find him at Basle attached to the staff of General Moreau. +While there he is said to have amused himself and some of his cronies by +writing notes on what Davenport would have called "Forbidden Subjects," +and, as a means of publishing his erotic lucubrations, he constructed +this fragment, which brings in those topics on which he had enlarged. +He translated the fragment into French, attached his notes, and issued +the book. There is another story to the effect that he had been +reprimanded by Moreau for having written a loose song and that he +exculpated himself by assuring the general that it was but a new fragment +of Petronius which he had translated. Two days later he had the fragment +ready to prove his contention. + +<p>This is the account given by his Spanish biographer. In his preface, +dedicated to the Army of the Rhine, he states that he found the fragment +in a manuscript of the work of St. Gennadius on the Duties of Priests, +probably of the XI Century. A close examination revealed the fact that +it was a palimpsest which, after treatment, permitted the restoration of +this fragment. It is supposed to supply the gap in Chapter 26 after the +word "verberabant." + +<p>Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, +style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect +imitation. There is no internal evidence of forgery. If the text is +closely scrutinized it will be seen that it is composed of words and +expressions taken from various parts of the Satyricon, "and that in every +line it has exactly the Petronian turn of phrase." + +<p>"Not only is the original edition unprocurable," to quote again from +Mr. Gaselee's invaluable bibliography, "but the reprint at Soleure +(Brussels), 1865, consisted of only 120 copies, and is hard to find. +The most accessible place for English readers is in Bohn's translation, +in which, however, only the Latin text is given; and the notes were a +most important part of the original work." + +<p>These notes, humorously and perhaps sarcastically ascribed to Lallemand, +Sanctae Theologiae Doctor, "are six in number (all on various forms of +vice); and show great knowledge, classical and sociological, of unsavory +subjects. Now that the book is too rare to do us any harm, we may admit +that the pastiche was not only highly amusing, but showed a perverse +cleverness amounting almost to genius." + +<p>Marchena died at Madrid in great poverty in 1821. A contemporary has +described him as being rather short and heavy set in figure, of great +frontal development, and vain beyond belief. He considered himself +invincible where women were concerned. He had a peculiar predilection +in the choice of animal pets and was an object of fear and curiosity +to the towns people. His forgery might have been completely successful +had he not acknowledged it himself within two or three years after the +publication of his brochure. The fragment will remain a permanent +tribute to the excellence of his scholarship, but it is his Ode to Christ +Crucified which has made him more generally known, and it is one of the +ironies of fate that caused this deformed giant of sarcasm to compose a +poem of such tender and touching piety. + +<p>Very little is known about Don Joe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas, whose +connecting passages, with the exception of one which is irrelevant, are +here included. + +<p>The learned editors of the Spanish encyclopedia naively preface their +brief sketch with the following assertion: "no tenemos noticias de su +vida." De Salas was born in 1588 and died in 1654. His edition of +Petronius was first issued in 1629 and re-issued in 1643 with a copper +plate of the Editor. The Paris edition, from which he says he supplied +certain deficiencies in the text, is unknown to bibliographers and is +supposed to be fictitious. + +<p>To distinguish the spurious passages, as a point of interest, in the +present edition, the forgeries of Nodot are printed within round +brackets, the forgery of Marchena within square brackets, and the +additions of De Salas in italics {In this PG etext in curly brackets}. + +<p>The work is also accompanied by a translation of the six notes, the +composition of which led Marchena to forge the fragment which first +appeared in the year 1800. These have never before been translated. + +<p>Thanks are due Ralph Straus, Esq., and Professor Stephen Gaselee. +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> + <h1><a name="THE SATYRICON"></a>THE SATYRICON OF</h1> + <h1>PETRONIUS ARBITER</h1> +</center> + +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<blockquote> +<p><i><b>BRACKET CODE:</b></i></p> +<p><i>(Forgeries of Nodot)</i></p> +<p><i>[Forgeries of Marchena]</i></p> +<p><i>{Additions of De Salas}</i></p> +<p><i> DW</i></p> +</blockquote> + +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<h1><a name="VOLUME I."></a>VOLUME I.</h1> +<h1>ADVENTURES OF ENCOLPIUS AND HIS COMPANIONS</h1> +</center> + +<br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIRST.</h2> +<br> +<p>(It has been so long; since I promised you the story of my adventures, +that I have decided to make good my word today; and, seeing that we have +thus fortunately met, not to discuss scientific matters alone, but also +to enliven our jolly conversation with witty stories. Fabricius Veiento +has already spoken very cleverly on the errors committed in the name of +religion, and shown how priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for +prophecy, boldly expound mysteries which are too often such to +themselves. But) are our rhetoricians tormented by another species of +Furies when they cry, "I received these wounds while fighting for the +public liberty; I lost this eye in your defense: give me a guide who will +lead me to my children, my limbs are hamstrung and will not hold me up!" +Even these heroics could be endured if they made easier the road to +eloquence; but as it is, their sole gain from this ferment of matter and +empty discord of words is, that when they step into the Forum, they think +they have been carried into another world. And it is my conviction that +the schools are responsible for the gross foolishness of our young men, +because, in them, they see or hear nothing at all of the affairs of +every-day life, but only pirates standing in chains upon the shore, +tyrants scribbling edicts in which sons are ordered to behead their own +fathers; responses from oracles, delivered in time of pestilence, +ordering the immolation of three or more virgins; every word a honied +drop, every period sprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SECOND.</h2> +<br> +<p>Those who are brought up on such a diet can no more attain to wisdom than +a kitchen scullion can attain to a keen sense of smell or avoid stinking +of the grease. With your indulgence, I will speak out: you--teachers--are chiefly +responsible for the decay of oratory. With your well +modulated and empty tones you have so labored for rhetorical effect that +the body of your speech has lost its vigor and died. Young men did not +learn set speeches in the days when Sophocles and Euripides were +searching for words in which to express themselves. In the days when +Pindar and the nine lyric poets feared to attempt Homeric verse there was +no private tutor to stifle budding genius. I need not cite the poets for +evidence, for I do not find that either Plato or Demosthenes was given +to this kind of exercise. A dignified and, if I may say it, a chaste, +style, is neither elaborate nor loaded with ornament; it rises supreme by +its own natural purity. This windy and high-sounding bombast, a recent +immigrant to Athens, from Asia, touched with its breath the aspiring +minds of youth, with the effect of some pestilential planet, and as soon +as the tradition of the past was broken, eloquence halted and was +stricken dumb. Since that, who has attained to the sublimity of +Thucydides, who rivalled the fame of Hyperides? Not a single poem +has glowed with a healthy color, but all of them, as though nourished +on the same diet, lacked the strength to live to old age. Painting +also suffered the same fate when the presumption of the Egyptians +"commercialized" that incomparable art. (I was holding forth along these +lines one day, when Agamemnon came up to us and scanned with a curious +eye a person to whom the audience was listening so closely.) + + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE THIRD.</h2> +<br> +<p>He would not permit me to declaim longer in the portico than he himself +had sweat in the school, but exclaimed, "Your sentiments do not reflect +the public taste, young man, and you are a lover of common sense, which +is still more unusual. For that reason, I will not deceive you as to the +secrets of my profession. The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics, +are by no means to blame for these exercises. Unless they spoke in +accordance with the dictates of their young pupils, they would, as Cicero +remarks, be left alone in the schools! And, as designing parasites, when +they seek invitations to the tables of the rich, have in mind nothing +except what will, in their opinion, be most acceptable to their audience +--for in no other way can they secure their ends, save by setting snares +for the ears--so it is with the teachers of rhetoric, they might be +compared with the fisherman, who, unless he baits his hook with what he +knows is most appetizing to the little fish, may wait all day upon some +rock, without the hope of a catch." +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p006"></a><img alt="p006.jpg (84K)" src="p006.jpg" height="915" width="623"></center> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FOURTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>What, then, is there to do? The parents who are unwilling to permit +their children to undergo a course of training under strict discipline, +are the ones who deserve the reproof. In the first place, everything +they possess, including the children, is devoted to ambition. Then, that +their wishes may the more quickly be realized, they drive these unripe +scholars into the forum, and the profession of eloquence, than which none +is considered nobler, devolves upon boys who are still in the act of +being born! If, however, they would permit a graded course of study to +be prescribed, in order that studious boys might ripen their minds by +diligent reading; balance their judgment by precepts of wisdom, correct +their compositions with an unsparing pen, hear at length what they ought +to imitate, and be convinced that nothing can be sublime when it is +designed to catch the fancy of boys, then the grand style of oratory +would immediately recover the weight and splendor of its majesty. Now +the boys play in the schools, the young men are laughed at in the forum, +and, a worse symptom than either, no one, in his old age, will confess +the errors he was taught in his school days. But that you may not +imagine that I disapprove of a jingle in the Lucilian manner, I will +deliver my opinions in verse,-- + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIFTH.</h2> +<br> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> "The man who emerges with fame, from the school of stern art, + +<p> Whose mind gropes for lofty ideals, to bring them to light, + +<p> Must first, under rigid frugality, study his part; + +<p> Nor yearn for the courts of proud princes who frown in their might: + +<p> Nor scheme with the riff-raf, a client in order to dine, + +<p> Nor can he with evil companions his wit drown in wine + +<p> Nor sit, as a hireling, applauding an actor's grimace. + +<p> But, whether the fortress of arms-bearing Tritonis smile + +<p> Upon him, or land which the Spartan colonials grace, + +<p> Or home of the sirens, with poetry let him beguile + +<p> The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring + +<p> His fortunate soul drink its fill: Then, when later, the lore + +<p> Of Socrates' school he has mastered, the reins let him fling, + +<p> And brandish the weapons that mighty Demosthenes bore. + +<p> Then, steeped in the culture and music of Greece, let his taste + +<p> Be ripened and mellowed by all the great writers of Rome. + +<p> At first, let him haunt not the courts; let his pages be graced + +<p> By ringing and rhythmic effusions composed in his home + +<p> Next, banquets and wars be his theme, sung in soul-stirring chant, + +<p> In eloquent words such as undaunted Cicero chose. + +<p> Come! Gird up thy soul! Inspiration will then force a vent + +<p> And rush in a flood from a heart that is loved by the muse!" +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SIXTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>I was listening so attentively to this speech that I did not notice the +flight of Ascyltos, and while I was pacing the gardens, engulfed in this +flood-tide of rhetoric, a large crowd of students came out upon the +portico, having, it would seem, just listened to an extemporaneous +declamation, of I know not whom, the speaker of which had taken +exceptions to the speech of Agamemnon. While, therefore, the young men +were making fun of the sentiments of this last speaker, and criticizing +the arrangement of the whole speech, I seized the opportunity and went +after Ascyltos, on the run; but, as I neither held strictly to the road, +nor knew where the inn was located, wherever I went, I kept coming back +to the same place, until, worn out with running, and long since dripping +with sweat, I approached a certain little old woman who sold country +vegetables. + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p010"></a><img alt="p010.jpg (82K)" src="p010.jpg" height="787" width="599"></center> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>"Please, mother," I wheedled, "you don't know where I lodge, do you?" +Delighted with such humorous affability, "What's the reason I don't" she +replied, and getting upon her feet, she commenced to walk ahead of me. I +took her for a prophetess until, when presently we came to a more obscure +quarter, the affable old lady pushed aside a crazy-quilt and remarked, +"Here's where you ought to live," and when I denied that I recognized the +house, I saw some men prowling stealthily between the rows of name-boards +and naked prostitutes. Too late I realized that I had been led into a +brothel. After cursing the wiles of the little old hag, I covered my +head and commenced to run through the middle of the night-house to the +exit opposite, when, lo and behold! whom should I meet on the very +threshold but Ascyltos himself, as tired as I was, and almost dead; you +would have thought that he had been brought by the self-same little old +hag! I smiled at that, greeted him cordially, and asked him what he was +doing in such a scandalous place. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Wiping away the sweat with his hands, he replied, "If you only knew what +I have gone through!" "What was it?" I demanded. "A most respectable +looking person came up to me," he made reply, "while I was wandering all +over the town and could not find where I had left my inn, and very +graciously offered to guide me. He led me through some very dark and +crooked alleys, to this place, pulled out his tool, and commenced to beg +me to comply with his appetite. 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." (While +Ascyltos was telling me of his bad luck, who should come up again but +this same very respectable looking person, in company with a woman not at +all bad looking, and, looking at Ascyltos, he requested him to enter the +house, assuring him that there was nothing to fear, and, since he was +unwilling to take the passive part, he should have the active. The +woman, on her part, urged me very persistently to accompany her, so we +followed the couple, at last, and were conducted between the rows of +name-boards, where we saw, in cells, many persons of each sex amusing +themselves in such a manner) that it seemed to me that every one of them +must have been drinking satyrion. (On catching sight of us, they +attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with +his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down +upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. I succored the sufferer +immediately, however,) and having joined forces, we defied the +troublesome wretch. (Ascyltos ran out of the house and took to his +heels, leaving me as the object of their lewd attacks, but the crowd, +finding me the stronger in body and purpose, let me go unharmed.) + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p012"></a><img alt="p012.jpg (88K)" src="p012.jpg" height="901" width="565"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE NINTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>(After having tramped nearly all over the city,) I caught sight of Giton, +as though through a fog, standing at the end of the street, (on the very +threshold of the inn,) and I hastened to the same place. When I inquired +whether my "brother" had prepared anything for breakfast, the boy sat +down upon the bed and wiped away the trickling tears with his thumb. +I was greatly disturbed by such conduct on the part of my "brother," and +demanded to be told what had happened. After I had mingled threats with +entreaties, he answered slowly and against his will, "That brother or +comrade of yours rushed into the room a little while ago and commenced to +attempt my virtue by force. When I screamed, he pulled out his tool and +gritted out--If you're a Lucretia, you've found your Tarquin!" When I +heard this, I shook my fists in Ascyltos' face, "What have you to say for +yourself," I snarled, "you rutting pathic harlot, whose very breath is +infected?" Ascyltos pretended to bristle up and, shaking his fists more +boldly still, he roared: "Won't you keep quiet, you filthy gladiator, you +who escaped from the criminal's cage in the amphitheatre to which you +were condemned (for the murder of your host?) Won't you hold your +tongue, you nocturnal assassin, who, even when you swived it bravely, +never entered the lists with a decent woman in your life? Was I not a +'brother' to you in the pleasure-garden, in the same sense as that in +which this boy now is in this lodging-house?" "You sneaked away from the +master's lecture," I objected. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>"What should I have done, you triple fool, when I was +dying of hunger? I suppose I should have listened to opinions as much to +the purpose as the tinkle of broken glass or the interpretation of +dreams. By Hercules, you are much more deserving of censure than I, you +who will flatter a poet so as to get an invitation to dinner!" Then we +laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel, and approached more +peaceably whatever remained to be done. But the remembrance of that +injury recurred to my mind and, "Ascyltos," I said, "I know we shall not +be able to agree, so let us divide our little packs of common stock and +try to defeat our poverty by our individual efforts. Both you and I know +letters, but that I may not stand in the way of any undertaking of yours, +I will take up some other profession. Otherwise, a thousand trifles will +bring us into daily collision and furnish cause for gossip through the +whole town." Ascyltos made no objection to this, but merely remarked, +"As we, in our capacity of scholars, have accepted an invitation to +dinner, for this date, let us not lose our night. Since it seems to be +the graceful thing to do, I will look out for another lodging and another +'brother,' tomorrow." "Deferred pleasures are a long time coming," +I sighed. It was lust that made this separation so hasty, for I had, for +a long time, wished to be rid of a troublesome chaperon, so that I could +resume my old relations with my Giton. (Bearing this affront with +difficulty, Ascyltos rushed from the room, without uttering a word. +Such a headlong outburst augured badly, for I well knew his ungovernable +temper and his unbridled passion. On this account, I followed him out, +desirous of fathoming his designs and of preventing their consequences, +but he hid himself skillfully from my eyes, and all in vain, I searched +for him for a long time.) + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p020"></a><img alt="p020.jpg (79K)" src="p020.jpg" height="713" width="605"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>After having had the whole town under my eyes, I returned to the little +room and, having claimed the kisses which were mine in good faith, I +encircled the boy in the closest of embraces and enjoyed the effect of +our happy vows to a point that might be envied. Nor had all the +ceremonies been completed, when Ascyltos stole stealthily up to the +outside of the door and, violently wrenching off the bars, burst in upon +me, toying with my "brother." He filled the little room with his +laughter and hand-clapping, pulled away the cloak which covered us, "What +are you up to now, most sanctimonious 'brother'?" he jeered. "What's +going on here, a blanket-wedding?" Nor did he confine himself to words, +but, pulling the strap off his bag, he began to lash me very thoroughly, +interjecting sarcasms the while, "This is the way you would share with +your comrade, is it!" (The unexpectedness of the thing compelled me to +endure the blows in silence and to put up with the abuse, so I smiled at +my calamity, and very prudently, too, as otherwise I should have been put +to the necessity of fighting with a rival. My pretended good humor +soothed his anger, and at last, Ascyltos smiled as well. "See here, +Encolpius," he said, "are you so engrossed with your debaucheries that +you do not realize that our money is gone, and that what we have left is +of no value? In the summer, times are bad in the city. The country is +luckier, let's go and visit our friends." Necessity compelled the +approval of this plan, and the repression of any sense of injury as well, +so, loading Giton with our packs, we left the city and hastened to the +country-seat of Lycurgus, a Roman knight. Inasmuch as Ascyltos has +formerly served him in the capacity of "brother," he received us royally, +and the company there assembled, rendered our stay still more delightful. +In the first place, there was Tryphaena, a most beautiful woman, who had +come in company with Lycas, the master of a vessel and owner of estates +near the seashore. Although Lycurgus kept a frugal table, the pleasures +we enjoyed in this most enchanting spot cannot be described in words. +Of course you know that Venus joined us all up, as quickly as possible. +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p024"></a><img alt="p024.jpg (43K)" src="p024.jpg" height="927" width="449"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>The lovely Tryphaena pleased my taste, and listened willingly to my vows, +but hardly had I had time to enjoy her favors when Lycas, in a towering +rage because his preserves had been secretly invaded, demanded that I +indemnify him in her stead. She was an old flame of his, so he broached +the subject of a mutual exchange of favors. Burning with lust, he +pressed his suit, but Tryphaena possessed my heart, and I said Lycas nay. +By refusal, however, he was only made more ardent, followed me +everywhere, entered my room at night, and, after his entreaties had met +with contempt, he had recourse to violence against me, at which I yelled +so lustily that I aroused the entire household, and, by the help of +Lycurgus, I was delivered from the troublesome assault and escaped. At +last, perceiving that the house of Lycurgus was not suitable to the +prosecution of his design, he attempted to persuade me to seek his +hospitality, and when his suggestion was refused, he made use of +Tryphaena's influence over me. She besought me to comply with Lycas' +desires, and she did this all the more readily as by that she hoped to +gain more liberty of action. With affairs in this posture, I follow my +love, but Lycurgus, who had renewed his old relations with Ascyltos, +would not permit him to leave, so it was decided that he should remain +with Lycurgus, but that we would accompany Lycas. Nevertheless, we had +it understood among ourselves that whenever the opportunity presented +itself, we would each pilfer whatever we could lay hands upon, for the +betterment of the common stock. Lycas was highly delighted with my +acceptance of his invitation and hastened our departure, so, bidding our +friends good-bye, we arrived at his place on the very same day. Lycas +had so arranged matters that, on the journey, he sat beside me, while +Tryphaena was next to Giton, the reason for this being his knowledge +of the woman's notorious inconstancy; nor was he deceived, for she +immediately fell in love with the boy, and I easily perceived it. +In addition, Lycas took the trouble of calling my attention to the +situation, and laid stress upon the truth of what we saw. On this +account, I received his advances more graciously, at which he was +overjoyed. He was certain that contempt would be engendered from the +inconstancy of my "sister," with the result that, being piqued at +Tryphaena, I would all the more freely receive his advances. Now this +was the state of affairs at the house of Lycas, Tryphaena was desperately +in love with Giton, Giton's whole soul was aflame for her, neither of +them was a pleasing sight to my eyes, and Lycas, studying to please me, +arranged novel entertainments each day, which Doris, his lovely wife, +seconded to the best of her ability, and so gracefully that she soon +expelled Tryphaena from my heart. A wink of the eye acquainted Doris of +my passion, a coquettish glance informed me of the state of her heart, +and this silent language, anticipating the office of the tongue, secretly +expressed that longing of our souls which we had both experienced at the +same instant. The jealousy of Lycas, already well known to me, was the +cause of my silence, but love itself revealed to the wife the designs +which Lycas had upon me. At our first opportunity of exchanging +confidences, she revealed to me what she had discovered and I candidly +confessed, telling her of the coldness with which I had always met his +advances. The far-sighted woman remarked that it would be necessary for +us to use our wits. It turned out that her advice was sound, for I soon +found out that complacency to the one meant possession of the other. +Giton, in the meantime, was recruiting his exhausted strength, and +Tryphaena turned her attention to me, but, meeting with a repulse, she +flounced out in a rage. The next thing this burning harlot did was to +discover my commerce with both husband and wife. As for his wantonness +with me, she flung that aside, as by it she lost nothing, but she fell +upon the secret gratifications of Doris and made them known to Lycas, +who, his jealousy proving stronger than his lust, took steps to get +revenge. Doris, however, forewarned by Tryphaena's maid, looked out +for squalls and held aloof from any secret assignations. When I became +aware of all this, I heartily cursed the perfidy of Tryphaena and the +ungrateful soul of Lycas, and made up my mind to be gone. Fortune +favored me, as it turned out, for a vessel sacred to Isis and laden with +prize-money had, only the day before, run upon the rocks in the vicinity. +After holding a consultation with Giton, at which he gladly gave consent +to my plan, as Tryphaena visibly neglected him after having sapped his +virility, we hastened to the sea-shore early on the following morning, +and boarded the wreck, a thing easy of accomplishment as the watchmen, +who were in the pay of Lycas, knew us well. But they were so attentive +to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having +left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft +where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and +a silver sistrum. From the master's cabin, I also pilfered other +valuable trifles and, stealthily sliding down a rope, went ashore. Giton +was the only one who saw me and he evaded the watchmen and slipped away +after me. I showed him the plunder, when he joined me, and we decided +to post with all speed to Ascyltos, but we did not arrive at the home of +Lycurgus until the following day. In a few words I told Ascyltos of the +robbery, when he joined us, and of our unfortunate love-affairs as well. +He was for prepossessing the mind of Lycurgus in our favor, naming the +increasing wantonness of Lycas as the cause of our secret and sudden +change of habitation. When Lycurgus had heard everything, he swore +that he would always be a tower of strength between us and our enemies. +Until Tryphaena and Doris were awake and out of bed, our flight remained +undiscovered, for we paid them the homage of a daily attendance at the +morning toilette. When our unwonted absence was noted, Lycas sent out +runners to comb the sea-shore, for he suspected that we had been to the +wreck, but he was still unaware of the robbery, which was yet unknown +because the stern of the wreck was lying away from the beach, and the +master had not, as yet, gone back aboard. Lycas flew into a towering +rage when our flight was established for certain, and railed bitterly at +Doris, whom he considered as the moving factor in it. Of the hard words +and the beating he gave her I will say nothing, for the particulars are +not known to me, but I will affirm that Tryphaena, who was the sole cause +of the unpleasantness, persuaded Lycas to hunt for his fugitives in the +house of Lycurgus, which was our most probable sanctuary. She +volunteered to accompany him in person, so that she could load us with +the abuse which we deserved at her hands. They set out on the following +day and arrived at the estate of Lycurgus, but we were not there, for he +had taken us to a neighboring town to attend the feast of Hercules, which +was there being celebrated. As soon as they found out about this, they +hastened to take to the road and ran right into us in the portico of the +temple. At sight of them, we were greatly put out, and Lycas held forth +violently to Lycurgus, upon the subject of our flight, but he was met +with raised eyebrows and such a scowling forehead that I plucked up +courage and, in a loud voice, passed judgment upon his lewd and base +attempts and assaults upon me, not in the house of Lycurgus alone, but +even under his own roof: and as for the meddling Tryphaena, she received +her just deserts, for, at great length, I described her moral turpitude +to the crowd, our altercation had caused a mob to collect, and, to give +weight to my argument, I pointed to limber-hamed Giton, drained dry, as +it were, and to myself, reduced almost to skin and bones by the raging +lust of that nymphomaniac harlot. So humiliated were our enemies by the +guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot +revenge. As they perceived that we had prepossessed the mind of Lycurgus +in our favor, they decided to await his return, at his estate, in order +that they might wean him away from his misapprehension. As the +solemnities did not draw to a close until late at night, we could not +reach Lycurgus' country place, so he conducted us to a villa of his, +situated near the halfway point of the journey, and, leaving us to sleep +there until the next day, he set off for his estate for the purpose of +transacting some business. Upon his arrival, he found Lycas and +Tryphaena awaiting him, and they stated their case so diplomatically that +they prevailed upon him to deliver us into their hands. Lycurgus, cruel +by nature and incapable of keeping his word, was by this time striving to +hit upon the best method of betraying us, and to that end, he persuaded +Lycas to go for help, while he himself returned to the villa and had us +put under guard. To the villa he came, and greeted us with a scowl as +black as any Lycas himself had ever achieved, clenching his fists again +and again, he charged us with having lied about Lycas, and, turning +Ascyltos out, he gave orders that we were to be kept confined to the room +in which we had retired to rest. Nor would he hear a word in our +defense, from Ascyltos, but, taking the latter with him, he returned to +his estate, reiterating his orders relative to our confinement, which was +to last until his return. On the way back, Ascyltos vainly essayed to +break down Lycurgus' determination, but neither prayers nor caresses, nor +even tears could move him. Thereupon my "brother" conceived the design +of freeing us from our chains, and, antagonized by the stubbornness of +Lycurgus, he positively refused to sleep with him, and through this he +was in a better position to carry out the plan which he had thought out. +When the entire household was buried in its first sleep, Ascyltos loaded +our little packs upon his back and slipped out through a breach in the +wall, which he had previously noted, arriving at the villa with the dawn. +He gained entrance without opposition and found his way to our room, +which the guards had taken the precaution to bar. It was easy to force +an entrance, as the fastening was made of wood, which same he pried off +with a piece of iron. The fall of the lock roused us, for we were +snoring away, in spite of our unfortunate situation. On account of the +long vigil, the guard was in such a deep sleep that we alone were wakened +by the crashing fall of the lock, and Ascyltos, coming in, told us in a +few words what he had done for us; but as far as that goes, not many were +necessary. We were hurriedly dressing, when I was seized with the notion +of killing the guard and stripping the place. This plan I confided to +Ascyltos, who approved of the looting, but pointed out a more desirable +solution without bloodshed: knowing all the crooks and turns, as he did, +he led us to a store-room which he opened. We gathered up all that was +of value and sallied forth while it was yet early in the morning. +Shunning the public roads; we could not rest until we believed ourselves +safe from pursuit. Ascyltos, when he had caught his breath, gloatingly +exulted of the pleasure which the looting of a villa belonging to +Lycurgus, a superlatively avaricious man, afforded him: he complained, +with justice of his parsimony, affirming that he himself had received no +reward for his k-nightly services, that he had been kept at a dry table +and on a skimpy ration of food. This Lycurgus was so stingy that he +denied himself even the necessities of life, his immense wealth to the +contrary notwithstanding.) +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> The tortured Tantalus still stands, to parch in his shifting pool, + +<p> And starve, when fruit sways just beyond his grasp: + +<p> The image of the miser rich, when his avaricious soul + +<p> Robs him of food and drink, in Plenty's clasp. +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p>(Ascyltos was for going to Naples that same day, but I protested the +imprudence of going to any place where they would be on the lookout for +us. "Let's absent ourselves, for a while, and travel in the country. We +are well supplied with means." This advice took his fancy and we set out +for a part of the country noted for the beauty of its estates, and where +not a few of our acquaintances were enjoying the sports of the season. +Scarcely had we covered half the distance, however, before it began to +pour down rain by the bucketful, compelling us to run for the nearest +village. Upon entering the inn, we noticed many other wayfarers, who had +put up there to escape the storm. The jam prevented our being watched, +and at the same time made it easier for us to pry about with curious +eyes, on the alert for something to appropriate. Ascyltos, unseen by +anyone, picked up off the ground a little pouch in which he found some +gold pieces. We were overjoyed with this auspicious beginning, but, +fearing that some one would miss the gold, we stealthily slipped out by +the back door. A slave, who was saddling a horse in the courtyard, +suddenly left his work and went into the house, as if he had forgotten +something, and while he was gone I appropriated a superb mantle which was +tied fast to the saddle, by untying the thongs, then, utilizing a row of +outbuildings for cover, we made off into the nearest wood. When we had +reached the depths of the grove, where we were in safety, we thoroughly +discussed the surest method of secreting our gold, so that we would +neither be accused of robbery nor robbed ourselves, and we finally +decided to sew it into the hem of a ragged tunic, which I threw over my +shoulders, after having turned the mantle over to Ascyltos for +safekeeping; we then made ready to start for the city via the +unfrequented roads. We were just about to emerge from the shelter of +the wood when we heard, from somewhere on our left, "They can't get away, +they came into this wood; let's spread out and beat, and they will easily +be caught!" On hearing this, we were thrown into such a terrible fright +that Ascyltos and Giton dashed away city-ward, through the underbrush, +and I retreated in such a hurry that the precious tunic slipped off my +shoulders without my knowing it. 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. Chagrin restored my strength and +I leaped to my feet to look for the treasure, and for a long time I beat +around in vain. Worn out with work and vexation, I forced my way into +the thickest part of the grove and remained there for four mortal hours, +but at last, bored to extinction by the horrible solitude, I sought a way +out. As I went ahead, I caught sight of a peasant; then I had need of +all my nerve, and it did not fail me. Marching boldly up to him, I asked +my way to the city, complaining that I had been lost in the wood for +several hours. Seeing my condition, he took pity upon me, for I was +covered with mud and paler than death, and asked me whether I had seen +anyone in the place. "Not a soul," I replied, whereupon he kindly +conducted me to the high road, where he met two of his companions, who +informed him that they had beaten along every path in the forest without +having found anything except a tunic, which they showed him. As may be +readily supposed, I did not have the audacity to claim it, though well +aware of its value, and my chagrin became almost insupportable as I +vented many a groaning curse over my lost treasure. The peasants paid +no attention to me, and I was gradually left behind, as my weakness +increased my pace decreased. For this reason, it was late when I reached +the city, and, entering the inn, beheld Ascyltos, stretched out, half +dead, upon a cot. Too far gone to utter a single syllable, I threw +myself upon another. Ascyltos became greatly excited at not seeing the +tunic which he had entrusted to me, demanding it insistently, but I was +so weak that my voice refused its office and I permitted the apathy of my +eyes to answer his demand, then, by and by, regaining my strength little +by little, I related the whole affair to Ascyltos, in every detail. He +thought that I was joking, and although my testimony was fortified by a +copious flood of tears, it could easily be seen that he remained +unconvinced, believing that I wanted to cheat him out of the gold. +Giton, who was standing by during all this, was as downcast as myself, +and the suffering of the lad only served to increase my own vexation, but +the thing which bothered me most of all, was the painstaking search which +was being made for us; I told Ascyltos of this, but he only laughed it +off, as he had so happily extricated himself from the scrape. He was +convinced that, as we were unknown and as no one had seen us, we were +perfectly safe. We decided, nevertheless, to feign sickness, and to keep +to our room as long as possible; but, before we knew it, our money ran +out, and spurred by necessity we were forced to go abroad and sell some +of our plunder.) + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Twilight was falling, as we entered the market-place, in which we noticed +a quantity of things for sale, not any of much value, it is true, but +such as could be disposed of to the best advantage when the semi-darkness +would serve to hide their doubtful origin. As we had brought our stolen +mantle, we proceeded to make use of so favorable an opportunity, and, in +a secluded spot, displayed a corner of it, hoping the splendid garment +would attract some purchaser. Nor was it long before a certain peasant, +whose face was familiar to my eyes, came up, accompanied by a young +woman, and began to examine the garment very closely. Ascyltos, in turn, +cast a glance at the shoulders of our rustic customer, and was instantly +struck dumb with astonishment. Nor could I myself look upon this man +without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had +picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, +he was! Ascyltos, afraid to believe the evidence of his own eyes for +fear of doing something rash, approached the man, as a prospective buyer, +took the hem of the tunic from the rustic's shoulders, and felt it +thoroughly. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Oh wonderful stroke of Fortune! The peasant had not yet laid his +meddling hands upon the seams, but was scornfully offering the thing for +sale, as though it had been the leavings of some beggar. When Ascyltos +had assured himself that the hoard was intact, and had taken note of the +social status of the seller, he led me a little aside from the crowd and +said, "Do you know, 'brother,' that the treasure about which I was so +worked up has come back to us? That is the little tunic, and it seems +that the gold pieces are still untouched. What ought we to do, and how +shall we make good our claim?" I was overjoyed, not so much at seeing +our booty, as I was for the reason that Fortune had released me from a +very ugly suspicion. I was opposed to doing anything by devious methods, +thinking that should he prove unwilling to restore to the proper owner an +article not his own, it ought to come to a civil action and a judgment +secured. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred, "Who knows us +here? Who will place any credence in anything we say? It seems to me +that it would be better to buy, ours though it is, and we know it, and +recover the treasure at small cost, rather than to engage in a doubtful +lawsuit." + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, + +<p> Where Poverty can never win its cases? + +<p> Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known + +<p> To often sell the truth, and keep their faces! + +<p> So Justice is at public auction bought, + +<p> The knight gives judgement as Gold says he ought. +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p>But, with the exception of a two-as piece with which we had intended +purchasing peas and lupines, there was nothing to hand; so, for fear our +loot should escape us in the interim, we resolved to appraise the mantle +at less, and, through a small sacrifice, secure a greater profit. +Accordingly, we spread it out, and the young woman of the covered head, +who was standing by the peasant's side, narrowly inspected the markings, +seized the hem with both hands, and screamed "Thieves!" at the top of her +voice. We were greatly disconcerted at this and, for fear that +inactivity on our part should seem to lend color to her charges, we +laid hold of the dirty ragged tunic, in our turn, and shouted with equal +spite, that this was our property which they had in their possession; but +our cases were by no means on an equality, and the hucksters who had +crowded around us at the uproar, laughed at our spiteful claim, and very +naturally, too, since one side laid claim to a very valuable mantle, +while the other demanded a rag which was not worth a good patch. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Ascyltos, when he had secured silence, adroitly put a stop to their +laughter by exclaiming, "We can see that each puts the greater value upon +his own property. Let them return our tunic to us, and take back their +mantle!" This exchange was satisfactory enough to the peasant and the +young woman, but some night-prowling shyster lawyers, who wished to get +possession of the mantle for their own profit, demanded that both +articles be deposited with them, and the judge could look into the case +on the morrow, for it would appear that the ownership of the articles was +not so much to the point as was the suspicion of robbery that attached +to both sides. The question of sequestration arose, and one of the +hucksters, I do not remember which, but he was bald, and his forehead was +covered with sebaceous wens, and he sometimes did odd jobs for the +lawyers, seized the mantle and vowed that HE would see to it that it was +produced at the proper time and place, but it was easily apparent that he +desired nothing but that the garment should be deposited with thieves, +and vanish; thinking that we would be afraid to appear as claimants for +fear of being charged with crime. As far as we were concerned, we were +as willing as he, and Fortune aided the cause of each of us, for the +peasant, infuriated at our demand that his rags be shown in public, threw +the tunic in Ascyltos' face, released us from responsibility, and +demanded that the mantle, which was the only object of litigation, be +sequestered. As we thought we had recovered our treasure, we returned +hurriedly to the inn, and fastening the door, we had a good laugh at the +shrewdness of the hucksters, and not less so at that of our enemies, for +by it they had returned our money to us. (While we were unstitching the +tunic to get at the gold pieces, we overheard some one quizzing the +innkeeper as to what kind of people those were, who had just entered his +house. Alarmed at this inquiry, I went down, when the questioner had +gone, to find out what was the matter, and learned that the praetor's +lictor, whose duty it was to see that the names of strangers were entered +in his rolls, had seen two people come into the inn, whose names were not +yet entered, and that was the reason he had made inquiry as to their +names and means of support. Mine host furnished this information in such +an offhand manner that I became suspicious as to our entire safety in his +house; so, in order to avoid arrest, we decided to go out, and not to +return home until after dark, and we sallied forth, leaving the +management of dinner to Giton. As it suited our purpose to avoid the +public streets, we strolled through the more unfrequented parts of the +city, and just at dusk we met two women in stolas, in a lonely spot, and +they were by no means homely. Walking softly, we followed them to a +temple which they entered, and from which we could hear a curious +humming, which resembled the sound of voices issuing from the depths of a +cavern. Curiosity impelled us also to enter the temple. There we caught +sight of many women, who resembled Bacchantes, each of whom brandished in +her right hand an emblem of Priapus. We were not permitted to see more, +for as their eyes fell upon us, they raised such a hubbub that the vault +of the temple trembled. They attempted to lay hands upon us, but we ran +back to our inn as fast as we could go.) + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p044"></a><img alt="p044.jpg (82K)" src="p044.jpg" height="831" width="573"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>We had just disposed of the supper prepared by Giton, when there came a +timid rapping at the door. We turned pale. "Who is there?" we asked. +"Open and you will find out," came the answer. While we were speaking, +the bar fell down of its own accord, the doors flew open and admitted our +visitor. She was the selfsame young lady of the covered head who had but +a little while before stood by the peasant's side. "So you thought," +said she, "that you could make a fool of me, did you? I am Quartilla's +handmaid: Quartilla, whose rites you interrupted in the shrine. She has +come to the inn, in person, and begs permission to speak with you. Don't +be alarmed! She neither blames your mistake nor does she demand +punishment; on the contrary, she wonders what god has brought such +well-bred young gentlemen into her neighborhood!" + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>We were still holding our tongues and refraining from any expression of +opinion, when the lady herself entered the room, attended by a little +girl. Seating herself upon the bed, she wept for a long time. Not even +then did we interject a single word, but waited, all attention, for what +was to follow these well ordered tears and this show of grief. When the +diplomatic thunderstorm had passed over, she withdrew her haughty head +from her mantle and, ringing her hands until the joints cracked, "What is +the meaning of such audacity?" she demanded; "where did you learn such +tricks? They are worthy of putting to shame the assurance of all the +robbers of the past! I pity you, so help me the God of Truth, I do; for +no one can look with impunity upon that which it is unlawful for him to +see. In our neighborhood, there are so many gods that it is easier to +meet one than it is to find a man! But do not think that I was actuated +by any desire for revenge when I came here: I am more moved by your age +than I am by my own injury, for it is my belief that youthful imprudence +led you into committing a sacrilegious crime. That very night, I tossed +so violently in the throes of a dangerous chill that I was afraid I had +contracted a tertian ague, and in my dreams I prayed for a medicine. I +was ordered to seek you out, and to arrest the progress of the disease by +means of an expedient to be suggested by your wonderful penetration! The +cure does not matter so much, however, for a deeper grief gnaws at my +vitals and drags me down, almost to the very doors of death itself. I am +afraid that, with the careless impulsiveness of youth, you may divulge, +to the common herd, what you witnessed in the shrine of Priapus, and +reveal the rites of the gods to the rabble. On this account, I stretch +out my suppliant hands to your knees, and beg and pray that you do not +make a mockery and a joke of our nocturnal rites, nor lay bare the +secrets of so many years, into which scarcely a thousand persons are +initiated." + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><a name="p046"></a><img alt="p046.jpg (62K)" src="p046.jpg" height="713" width="573"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>The tears poured forth again, after this appeal, and, shaken by deep +sobs, she buried her whole face and breast in my bed; and I, moved by +pity and by apprehension, begged her to be of good cheer and to make +herself perfectly easy as to both of those issues, for not only would we +not betray any secrets to the rabble, but we would also second divine +providence, at any peril to ourselves, if any god had indicated to her +any cure for her tertian ague. The woman cheered up at this promise, and +smothered me with kisses; from tears she passed to laughter, and fell to +running her fingers through the long hair that hung down about my ears. +"I will declare a truce with you," she said, "and withdraw my complaint. +But had you been unwilling to administer the medicine which I seek, I had +a troop in readiness for the morrow, which would have exacted +satisfaction for my injury and reparation for my dignity! + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> To be flouted is disgraceful, but to dictate terms, sublime + +<p> Pleased am I to choose what course I will, + +<p> Even sages will retort an insult at the proper tune. + +<p> Victor most is he who does not kill." +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p>Then she suddenly clapped her hands, and broke into such a peal of +laughter that we were alarmed. The maid, who had been the first to +arrive, did likewise, on one side of us, as also did the little girl who +had entered with the madame herself. + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. +</h2><br> +<p>The whole place was filled with mocking laughter, and we, who could see +no reason for such a change of front, stared blankly at each other and +then at the women. (Then Quartilla spoke up, finally,) "I gave orders +that no mortal man should be admitted into this inn, this day, so that I +could receive the treatment for my ague without interruption!" Ascyltos +was, for the moment, struck dumb by this admission of Quartilla's, and I +turned colder than a Gallic winter, and could not utter a word; but the +personnel of the company relieved me from the fear that the worst might +be yet to come, for they were only three young women, too weak to attempt +any violence against us, who were of the male sex, at least, even if we +had nothing else of the man about us, and this was an asset. Then, too, +we were girded higher, and I had so arranged matters that if it came to a +fight, I would engage Quartilla myself, Ascyltos the maid, and Giton the +girl. (While I was turning over this plan in my mind, Quartilla came to +close quarters, to receive the treatment for her ague, but having her +hopes disappointed, she flounced out in a rage and, returning in a little +while, she had us overpowered by some unknown vagabonds, and gave orders +for us to be carried away to a splendid palace.) Then our determination +gave place to astonishment, and death, sure and certain, began to obscure +the eyes of suffering. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p048"></a><img alt="p048.jpg (52K)" src="p048.jpg" height="955" width="453"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. +</h2><br> +<p>"Pray; madame," I groaned, "if you have anything worse in store, bring it +on quickly for we have not committed a crime so heinous as to merit death +by torture." The maid, whose name was Psyche, quickly spread a blanket +upon the floor (and) sought to secure an erection by fondling my member, +which was already a thousand times colder than death. Ascyltos, well +aware by now of the danger of dipping into the secrets of others, covered +his head with his mantle. (In the meantime,) the maid took two ribbons +from her bosom and bound our feet with one and our hands with the other. +(Finding myself trussed up in this fashion, I remarked, "You will not be +able to cure your mistress' ague in this manner!" "Granted," the maid +replied, "but I have other and surer remedies at hand," she brought me a +vessel full of satyrion, as she said this, and so cheerfully did she +gossip about its virtues that I drank down nearly all of the liquor, and +because Ascyltos had but a moment before rejected her advances, she +sprinkled the dregs upon his back, without his knowing it.) When this +repartee had drawn to a close, Ascyltos exclaimed, "Don't I deserve a +drink?" Given away by my laughter, the maid clapped her hands and cried, +"I put one by you, young man; did you drink so much all by yourself?" +"What's that you say?", Quartilla chimed in. "Did Encolpius drink all +the satyrion there was in the house?" And she laughed delightfully until +her sides shook. Finally not even Giton himself could resist a smile, +especially when the little girl caught him around the neck and showered +innumerable kisses upon him, and lie not at all averse to it. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p050"></a><img alt="p050.jpg (69K)" src="p050.jpg" height="751" width="605"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. +</h2><br> +<p>We would have cried aloud in our misery but there was no one to give us +any help, and whenever I attempted to shout, "Help! all honest +citizens," Psyche would prick my cheeks with her hairpin, and the little +girl would intimidate Ascyltos with a brush dipped in satyrion. Then a +catamite appeared, clad in a myrtle-colored frieze robe, and girded round +with a belt. One minute he nearly gored us to death with his writhing +buttocks, and the next, he befouled us so with his stinking kisses that +Quartilla, with her robe tucked high, held up her whalebone wand and +ordered him to give the unhappy wretches quarter. Both of us then took a +most solemn oath that so dread a secret should perish with us. Several +wrestling instructors appeared and refreshed us, worn out as we were, by +a massage with pure oil, and when our fatigue had abated, we again donned +our dining clothes and were escorted to the next room, in which were +placed three couches, and where all the essentials necessary to a +splendid banquet were laid out in all their richness. We took our +places, as requested, and began with a wonderful first course. We were +all but submerged in Falernian wine. When several other courses had +followed, and we were endeavoring to keep awake Quartilla exclaimed, "How +dare you think of going to sleep when you know that the vigil of Priapus +is to be kept?" + +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="p052"></a><img alt="p052.jpg (47K)" src="p052.jpg" height="599" width="659"> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. +</h2><br> +<p>Worn out by all his troubles, Ascyltos commenced to nod, and the maid, +whom he had slighted, and of course insulted, smeared lampblack all over +his face, and painted his lips and shoulders with vermillion, while he +drowsed. Completely exhausted by so many untoward adventures, I, too, +was enjoying the shortest of naps, the whole household, within and +without, was doing the same, some were lying here and there asleep at our +feet, others leaned against the walls, and some even slept head to head +upon the threshold itself; the lamps, failing because of a lack of oil, +shed a feeble and flickering light, when two Syrians, bent upon stealing +an amphora of wine, entered the dining-room. While they were greedily +pawing among the silver, they pulled the amphora in two, upsetting the +table with all the silver plate, and a cup, which had flown pretty high, +cut the head of the maid, who was drowsing upon a couch. She screamed at +that, thereby betraying the thieves and wakening some of the drunkards. +The Syrians, who had come for plunder, seeing that they were about to be +detected, were so quick to throw themselves down besides a couch and +commence to snore as if they had been asleep for a long time, that you +would have thought they belonged there. The butler had gotten up and +poured oil in the flickering lamps by this time, and the boys, having +rubbed their eyes open, had returned to their duty, when in came a female +cymbal player and the crashing brass awoke everybody. + +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="p054"></a><img alt="p054.jpg (93K)" src="p054.jpg" height="735" width="551"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD. +</h2><br> +<p>The banquet began all over again, and Quartilla challenged us to a +drinking-bout, the crash of the cymbals lending ardor to her revel. +A catamite appeared, the stalest of all mankind, well worthy of that +house. Heaving a sigh, he wrung his hands until the joints cracked, +and spouted out the following verses, + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p>"Hither, hither quickly gather, pathic companions boon; +<p>Artfully stretch forth your limbs and on with the dance and play! +<p>Twinkling feet and supple thighs and agile buttocks in tune, +<p>Hands well skilled in raising passions, Delian eunuchs gay!" +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p>When he had finished his poetry, he slobbered a most evil-smelling kiss +upon me, and then, climbing upon my couch, he proceeded with all his +might and main to pull all of my clothing off. I resisted to the limit +of my strength. He manipulated my member for a long time, but all in +vain. Gummy streams poured down his sweating forehead, and there was so +much chalk in the wrinkles of his cheeks that you might have mistaken his +face for a roofless wall, from which the plaster was crumbling in a rain. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p056"></a><img alt="p056.jpg (47K)" src="p056.jpg" height="745" width="533"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. +</h2><br> +<p>Driven to the last extremity, I could no longer keep back the tears. +"Madame," I burst out, "is this the night-cap which you ordered served to +me?" Clapping her hands softly she cried out, "Oh you witty rogue, you +are a fountain of repartee, but you never knew before that a catamite was +called a k-night-cap, now did you?" Then, fearing my companion would come +off better than I, "Madame," I said, "I leave it to your sense of +fairness: is Ascyltos to be the only one in this dining-room who keeps +holiday?" "Fair enough," conceded Quartilla, "let Ascyltos have his +k-night-cap too!" On hearing that, the catamite changed mounts, and, +having bestridden my comrade, nearly drove him to distraction with his +buttocks and his kisses. Giton was standing between us and splitting his +sides with laughter when Quartilla noticed him, and actuated by the +liveliest curiosity, she asked whose boy he was, and upon my answering +that he was my "brother," "Why has he not kissed me then?" she +demanded. Calling him to her, she pressed a kiss upon his mouth, then +putting her hand beneath his robe, she took hold of his little member, as +yet so undeveloped. "This," she remarked, "shall serve me very well +tomorrow, as a whet to my appetite, but today I'll take no common fare +after choice fish!" + +<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. +</h2><br> +<p>She was still talking when Psyche, who was giggling, came to her side and +whispered something in her ear. What it was, I did not catch. "By all +means," ejaculated Quartilla, "a brilliant idea! Why shouldn't our +pretty little Pannychis lose her maidenhead when the opportunity is so +favorable?" A little girl, pretty enough, too, was led in at once; she +looked to be not over seven years of age, and she was the same one who +had before accompanied Quartilla to our room. Amidst universal applause, +and in response to the demands of all, they made ready to perform the +nuptial rites. I was completely out of countenance, and insisted that +such a modest boy as Giton was entirely unfitted for such a wanton part, +and moreover, that the child was not of an age at which she could receive +that which a woman must take. "Is that so," Quartilla scoffed, "is she +any younger than I was, when I submitted to my first man? Juno, my +patroness, curse me if I can remember the time when I ever was a virgin, +for I diverted myself with others of my own age, as a child then as the +years passed, I played with bigger boys, until at last I reached my +present age. I suppose that this explains the origin of the proverb, +'Who carried the calf may carry the bull,' as they say." As I feared +that Giton might run greater risk if I were absent, I got up to take +part in the ceremony. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p058"></a><img alt="p058.jpg (107K)" src="p058.jpg" height="939" width="653"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH.</h2> +<br> +<p>Psyche had already enveloped the child's head in the bridal-veil, the +catamite, holding a torch, led the long procession of drunken women which +followed; they were clapping their hands, having previously decked out +the bridal-bed with a suggestive drapery. Quartilla, spurred on by the +wantonness of the others, seized hold of Giton and drew him into the +bridal-chamber. There was no doubt of the boy's perfect willingness to +go, nor was the girl at all alarmed at the name of marriage. When they +were finally in bed, and the door shut, we seated ourselves outside the +door of the bridal-chamber, and Quartilla applied a curious eye to a +chink, purposely made, watching their childish dalliance with lascivious +attention. She then drew me gently over to her side that I might share +the spectacle with her, and when we both attempted to peep our faces were +pressed against each other; whenever she was not engrossed in the +performance, she screwed up her lips to meet mine, and pecked at me +continually with furtive kisses. [A thunderous hammering was heard at +the door, while all this was going on, and everyone wondered what this +unexpected interruption could mean, when we saw a soldier, one of the +night-watch, enter with a drawn sword in his hand, and surrounded by a +crowd of young rowdies. He glared about him with savage eyes and +blustering mien, and, catching sight of Quartilla, presently, "What's up +now, you shameless woman," he bawled; "what do you mean by making game of +me with lying promises, and cheating me out of the night you promised me? +But you won't get off unpunished You and that lover of yours are going to +find out that I'm a man!" At the soldier's orders, his companion bound +Quartilla and myself together, mouth to mouth, breast to breast, and +thigh to thigh; and not without a great deal of laughter. Then the +catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with +the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly +from, nor in any other way avoid. Finally, he ravished me, and worked +his entire pleasure upon me. In the meantime, the satyrion which I had +drunk only a little while before spurred every nerve to lust and I began +to gore Quartilla impetuously, and she, burning with the same passion, +reciprocated in the game. The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved +were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest +of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as +rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me. While +this was going on, Pannychis, unaccustomed at her tender years to the +pastime of Venus, raised an outcry and attracted the attention of the +soldier, by this unexpected howl of consternation, for this slip of a +girl was being ravished, and Giton the victor, had won a not bloodless +victory. Aroused by what he saw, the soldier rushed upon them, seizing +Pannychis, then Giton, then both of them together, in a crushing embrace. +The virgin burst into tears and plead with him to remember her age, but +her prayers availed her nothing, the soldier only being fired the more by +her childish charms. + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p062"></a><img alt="p062.jpg (62K)" src="p062.jpg" height="987" width="433"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Pannychis covered her head at last, resolved to +endure whatever the Fates had in store for her. At this instant, an old +woman, the very same who had tricked me on that day when I was hunting +for our lodging, came to the aid of Pannychis, as though she had dropped +from the clouds. With loud cries, she rushed into the house, swearing +that a gang of footpads was prowling about the neighborhood and the +people invoked the help of "All honest men," in vain, for the members of +the night-watch were either asleep or intent upon some carouse, as they +were nowhere to be found. Greatly terrified at this, the soldier rushed +headlong from Quartilla's house. His companions followed after him, +freeing Pannychis from impending danger and relieving the rest of us from +our fear.] (I was so weary of Quartilla's lechery that I began to +meditate means of escape. I made my intentions known to Ascyltos, who, +as he wished to rid himself of the importunities of Psyche, was +delighted; had not Giton been shut up in the bridal-chamber, the plan +would have presented no difficulties, but we wished to take him with us, +and out of the way of the viciousness of these prostitutes. We were +anxiously engaged in debating this very point, when Pannychis fell out of +bed, and dragged Giton after her, by her own weight. He was not hurt, +but the girl gave her head a slight bump, and raised such a clamor that +Quartilla, in a terrible fright, rushed headlong into the room, giving us +the opportunity of making off. We did not tarry, but flew back to our +inn where,) throwing ourselves upon the bed, we passed the remainder of +the night without fear. (Sallying forth next day, we came upon two of +our kidnappers, one of whom Ascyltos savagely attacked the moment he set +eyes upon him, and, after having thrashed and seriously wounded him, +he ran to my aid against the other. He defended himself so stoutly, +however, that he wounded us both, slightly, and escaped unscathed.) The +third day had now dawned, the date set for the free dinner (at +Trimalchio's,) but battered as we were, flight seemed more to our taste +than quiet, so (we hastened to our inn and, as our wounds turned out to +be trifling, we dressed them with vinegar and oil, and went to bed. The +ruffian whom we had done for, was still lying upon the ground and we +feared detection.) Affairs were at this pass, and we were framing +melancholy excuses with which to evade the coming revel, when a slave of +Agamemnon's burst in upon our trembling conclave and said, "Don't you +know with whom your engagement is today? The exquisite Trimalchio, who +keeps a clock and a liveried bugler in his dining-room, so that he can +tell, instantly, how much of his life has run out!" Forgetting all our +troubles at that, we dressed hurriedly and ordered Giton, who had very +willingly performed his servile office, to follow us to the bath. + +<br><br> +<hr> +<br><br> +<br><br> +<br><br> + + +<pre> +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS, V1 *** + +******** This file should be named pas1w10h.html or pas1w10h.zip ******** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, pas1w11h.html +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, pas1w10ha.html + +This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net] + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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