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Horace, Sermones, 2.8


nan2. Now, although I cannot but think that I have already demonstrated, and that abundantly, more than was necessary, that our fathers were not originally Egyptians, nor were thence expelled, either on account of bodily diseases, or any other calamities of that sort


nanfor Apion hath the impudence to pretend, that “the Jews placed an ass’s head in their holy place;” and he affirms that this was discovered when Antiochus Epiphanes spoiled our temple, and found that ass’s head there made of gold, and worth a great deal of money.


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1. Plautus, Trinummus, 10-19, 2, 20-22, 3-9, 1 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

2. Cicero, De Oratore, 2.171, 3.168 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.171. semper a bonis dissedisti." Ex causis autem rerum sic: "avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater eius est tollenda, luxuries." Ex eis autem, quae sunt orta de causis: "si aerari copiis et ad belli adiumenta et ad ornamenta pacis utimur, vectigalibus 3.168. quo item in genere et virtutes et vitia pro ipsis, in quibus illa sunt, appellantur: "luxuries quam in domum inrupit," et "quo avaritia penetravit"; aut "fides valuit, iustitia confecit." Videtis profecto genus hoc totum, cum inflexo immutatoque verbo res eadem enuntiatur ornatius; cui sunt finitima illa minus ornata, sed tamen non ignoranda, cum intellegi volumus aliquid aut ex parte totum, ut pro aedificiis cum parietes aut tecta dicimus; aut ex toto partem, ut cum unam turmam equitatum populi Romani dicimus; aut ex uno pluris: at Romanus homo, tamenetsi res bene gesta est corde suo trepidat; aut cum ex pluribus intellegitur unum: nos sumus Romani, qui fuimus ante Rudini; aut quocumque modo, non ut dictum est, in eo genere intellegitur, sed ut sensum est.
3. Cicero, Pro Murena, 76 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

76. Pauli nepos, P. Publii Africani, ut dixi, sororis filius, his haedinis pelliculis praetura deiectus est. odit populus Romanus privatam luxuriam, publicam magnificentiam diligit; non amat profusas epulas, sordis et inhumanitatem multo minus; distinguit rationem ratione Klotz officiorum ac temporum, vicissitudinem laboris ac voluptatis. nam quod ais nulla re adlici hominum mentis oportere ad magistratum mandandum nisi dignitate, hoc tu ipse in quo summa est dignitas non servas. cur enim quemquam ut studeat tibi, ut te adiuvet rogas? rogas tu me ut mihi praesis, ut committam ego me tibi. quid tandem? istuc istuc ed. Mediol. : istunc (ais an y2 ) mei me rogari oportet abs te, an te potius a me ut pro mea salute laborem periculumque suscipias?
4. Cicero, Topica, 98 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

98. quae autem sequitur consequitur Af narrationem fides, ea persuadendo quoniam efficitur, qui ad persuadendum loci maxime valeant dictum est in eis his codd. : is Af in quibus de omni ratione dicendi. Peroratio autem et et om. AO alia quaedam habet et maxime amplificationem, cuius effectus hic debet esse, ut aut perturbentur animi aut tranquillentur et, si ita adfecti iam ante sint, ut aut augeat eorum motus aut sedet oratio.
5. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.2.2, 1.2.9 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6. Horace, Letters, 1.5, 1.15.43-1.15.44, 2.2.122 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.5. 2. Now I have undertaken the present work, as thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their study; for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution of our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures. 1.5. He also deprived the serpent of speech, out of indignation at his malicious disposition towards Adam. Besides this, he inserted poison under his tongue, and made him an enemy to men; and suggested to them, that they should direct their strokes against his head, that being the place wherein lay his mischievous designs towards men, and it being easiest to take vengeance on him, that way. And when he had deprived him of the use of his feet, he made him to go rolling all along, and dragging himself upon the ground.
7. Livy, History, 34.4.3 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

8. Juvenal, Satires, 5, 11 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 27-78, 26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 27-78, 26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

11. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 95.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

12. Suetonius, Augustus, 76 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13. Suetonius, Nero, 31 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

14. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.637, 4.193

1.637. now told upon men's lips the whole world round. 4.193. and fiercely champs the foam-flecked bridle-rein.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
addressee,victimization of Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
adviser,satirist as,on clienthood Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
advocates,officially registered at courts Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 100
advocates,ranking of Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 100
advocates Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 100
allotment Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
anger,conditions for dramatized Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
anger,symptoms of Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
animals Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
animals as effigies Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
appius claudius pulcher Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
apuleius,sympotic questions König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
architecture Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
augustine,st,on advocates and iurisperiti Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 100
avaritia Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
aviaries Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
axius,q. Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
banquets Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
binding Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
birds Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
bodies fluid Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
calories Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
castration Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
cato,m. porcius (the censor,the elder) Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
census Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
chance Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
cleopatra Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
conspicuous consumption Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
courts Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 100
de re rustica (varro),dinner parties in Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
de re rustica (varro),genre of Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
de re rustica (varro),irony in Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
de re rustica (varro),satire in Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
de re rustica (varro),settings of Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
death Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
decadence Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
decay Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
decline Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59; Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
deformity Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
demographics Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
dialogues,settings of Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
disease Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
dogs Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
east Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
economics of status Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
excrement Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
exhelkein Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
fear,of satiric abuse Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
female salaciousness Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
fiscal regimes Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
flesh Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
foul Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
freedmen Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
friendship and the satirist Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
frugality,enforced Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
frugality,legislated Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
frugality,rhetoric of Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
gellius,aulus Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
greece,greek vii Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
greece Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
helkein Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
horace Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64; König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
horses Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
husbandry Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
indignatio,in satiric plot Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
inopia Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
iugera Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
iunx Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
lascivia Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
lex oppia Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
lucilius,and anger Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
lust vii Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
madness Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
maecenas,c. clinius Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
maecenas König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
magistrates,and appointment of advocates Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 100
magnificence Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
masculinity Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
medea Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
mediterranean cultures Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
melting Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
menippus,menippean satire König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
mobility,social Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
moderation' König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
moderation Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
nasidienus rufus Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
nature Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
needles or pins Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
patrimony Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
patronage Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
personification vii Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
petronius,satyrica König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
petronius Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205
piercing Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
pindar Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
pirate war (67 bc) Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
pleasure Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
poverty Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
poverty vii Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
revenues Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
revolution,literary Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
rhetoric Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
rhetorical theory,emotion in Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
roosters Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
satire,food in Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
satisficing Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
scrofa,cn. tremelius Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
self-fashioning Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
self-sufficiency Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
sermo,as one-sided Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
slaves Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
socrates Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
stolo,c. licinius Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
subsistence Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
surplus Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
tongues Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
torture Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
trimalchio Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 59
varro,m. terentius,as author of saturae menippeae Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 26
varro König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 27
venice Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
victoricus Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 67
virtue Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
weakening Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23
weeping" Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 64
wife,wives Viglietti and Gildenhard (2020), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, 34
women,elderly Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 205