The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER VOLUME I. ADVENTURES OF ENCOLPIUS AND HIS COMPANIONS
NO SLAVE TO LEAVE THE PREMISES
HERE RESTS G POMPEIUS TRIMALCHIO
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THIRD.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOURTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVENTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTIETH.
CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST.
CHAPTER 9. Gladiator obscene:--
CHAPTER 34. Silver Skeleton, et seq.
ALIAE. RESTITVTAE. ANIMAE. DVLCISSIMAE.
CHAPTER 56. Contumelia--Contus and Melon (malum).
CHAPTER 119. The rite of the Persians:
Another exquisite and illuminating passage occurs in Catullus, 51, given in Marchena's fourth note.
CHAPTER 131. Medio sustulit digito:
Christianity, most spiritual, most mystical of ancient religions, attempts to make out a great case for celibacy. Its founder never married, although the Pharisees reproached him for frequenting gay women, and had, perhaps, some reason for so doing. Jesus showed a particular affection for Mary Magdalen, to the point of exciting the jealousy of Martha, who complained that her sister passed her time in conversation with Jesus and left her with all the housework to do. "Mary has chosen the better part," said the Savior. A good Christian must not doubt that the colloquies were always spiritual.
St. Paul counseled virginity and most of the apostolic fathers practiced it. Among others, St. Jerome lived his whole life among women and never lost his purity. He answered his enemies who reproached him with his very great intimacy with the Saintly Sisters, that the irrefutable proof of his chastity was that he stank. That stinking of St. Jerome, which is not a veritable article of faith in the Church, is, however, an object of pious belief; and my readers will very gladly assent to it.
When the Christian clergy wishes to form a body of doctrines to be submitted to by all the common people it thinks that by separating its interests and those of the common people as far as possible it must tighten those ropes by which it binds its fellow citizens. Also the Pope who was the most jealous of ecclesiastical power and the one who abused it most, Hildebrand, rigorously prohibited the marriage of priests and enunciated the most terrible warnings against those who did not retain their celibacy. However, although neither priests nor monks were permitted to marry, the epithet "virgins" cannot be justly applied to all priests and all monks without exception. Nor shall I repeat here the naughty pleasantries of Erasmus, of Boccaccio, and all the others, against the monks; without doubt maliciousness has developed more "satyrical" traits that they have brought out; beyond that, I have nothing to say.