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Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 60

nan We were not given long to admire these elegant tours de force; suddenly there came a noise from the ceiling, and the whole dining-room trembled. I rose from my place in a panic: I was afraid some acrobat would come down through the roof. All the other guests too looked up astonished, wondering what the new portent from heaven was announced. The whole ceiling parted asunder, and an enormous hoop, apparently knocked out of a giant cask, was let down. All round it were hung golden crowns and alabaster boxes of perfumes. We were asked to take these presents for ourselves, when I looked back at the table. . . . A dish with some cakes on it had now been put there, a Priapus made by the confectioner standing in the middle, holding up every kind of fruit and grapes in his wide apron in the conventional style. We reached greedily after his treasures, and a sudden fresh turn of humour renewed our merriment. All the cakes and all the fruits, however lightly they were touched, began to spurt out saffron, and the nasty juice flew even into our mouths. We thought it must be a sacred dish that was anointed with such holy appointments, and we all stood straight up and cried, "The gods bless Augustus, the father of his country." But as some people even after this solemnity snatched at the fruit, we filled our napkins too, myself especially, for I thought that I could never fill Giton's lap with a large enough present. Meanwhile three boys came in with their white tunics well tucked up, and two of them put images of the Lares with lockets round their necks on the table, while one carried round a bowl of wine and cried, "God be gracious unto us." Trimalchio said that one of the images was called Gain, another Luck, and the third Profit. And as everybody else kissed Trimalchio's true portrait we were ashamed to pass it by.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 22.1-22.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 22.1. וַיְהִי אַחַר הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה וְהָאֱלֹהִים נִסָּה אֶת־אַבְרָהָם וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו אַבְרָהָם וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֵּנִי׃ 22.1. וַיִּשְׁלַח אַבְרָהָם אֶת־יָדוֹ וַיִּקַּח אֶת־הַמַּאֲכֶלֶת לִשְׁחֹט אֶת־בְּנוֹ׃ 22.2. וַיֹּאמֶר קַח־נָא אֶת־בִּנְךָ אֶת־יְחִידְךָ אֲשֶׁר־אָהַבְתָּ אֶת־יִצְחָק וְלֶךְ־לְךָ אֶל־אֶרֶץ הַמֹּרִיָּה וְהַעֲלֵהוּ שָׁם לְעֹלָה עַל אַחַד הֶהָרִים אֲשֶׁר אֹמַר אֵלֶיךָ׃ 22.2. וַיְהִי אַחֲרֵי הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה וַיֻּגַּד לְאַבְרָהָם לֵאמֹר הִנֵּה יָלְדָה מִלְכָּה גַם־הִוא בָּנִים לְנָחוֹר אָחִיךָ׃ 22.1. And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him: ‘Abraham’; and he said: ‘Here am I.’" 22.2. And He said: ‘Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.’"
2. Hebrew Bible, Hosea, 9.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 9.3. לֹא יֵשְׁבוּ בְּאֶרֶץ יְהוָה וְשָׁב אֶפְרַיִם מִצְרַיִם וּבְאַשּׁוּר טָמֵא יֹאכֵלוּ׃ 9.3. They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And they shall eat unclean food in Assyria."
3. Hebrew Bible, Jonah, 1.5, 1.7-1.10, 1.14-1.16 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 1.5. וַיִּירְאוּ הַמַּלָּחִים וַיִּזְעֲקוּ אִישׁ אֶל־אֱלֹהָיו וַיָּטִלוּ אֶת־הַכֵּלִים אֲשֶׁר בָּאֳנִיָּה אֶל־הַיָּם לְהָקֵל מֵעֲלֵיהֶם וְיוֹנָה יָרַד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי הַסְּפִינָה וַיִּשְׁכַּב וַיֵּרָדַם׃ 1.7. וַיֹּאמְרוּ אִישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵהוּ לְכוּ וְנַפִּילָה גוֹרָלוֹת וְנֵדְעָה בְּשֶׁלְּמִי הָרָעָה הַזֹּאת לָנוּ וַיַּפִּלוּ גּוֹרָלוֹת וַיִּפֹּל הַגּוֹרָל עַל־יוֹנָה׃ 1.8. וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו הַגִּידָה־נָּא לָנוּ בַּאֲשֶׁר לְמִי־הָרָעָה הַזֹּאת לָנוּ מַה־מְּלַאכְתְּךָ וּמֵאַיִן תָּבוֹא מָה אַרְצֶךָ וְאֵי־מִזֶּה עַם אָתָּה׃ 1.9. וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם עִבְרִי אָנֹכִי וְאֶת־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם אֲנִי יָרֵא אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה אֶת־הַיָּם וְאֶת־הַיַּבָּשָׁה׃ 1.14. וַיִּקְרְאוּ אֶל־יְהוָה וַיֹּאמְרוּ אָנָּה יְהוָה אַל־נָא נֹאבְדָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ הָאִישׁ הַזֶּה וְאַל־תִּתֵּן עָלֵינוּ דָּם נָקִיא כִּי־אַתָּה יְהוָה כַּאֲשֶׁר חָפַצְתָּ עָשִׂיתָ׃ 1.15. וַיִּשְׂאוּ אֶת־יוֹנָה וַיְטִלֻהוּ אֶל־הַיָּם וַיַּעֲמֹד הַיָּם מִזַּעְפּוֹ׃ 1.16. וַיִּירְאוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים יִרְאָה גְדוֹלָה אֶת־יְהוָה וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־זֶבַח לַיהוָה וַיִּדְּרוּ נְדָרִים׃ 1.5. And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep." 1.7. And they said every one to his fellow: ‘Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.’ So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah." 1.8. Then said they unto him: ‘Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?’" 1.9. And he said unto them: ‘I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.’" 1.10. Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him: ‘What is this that thou hast done?’ For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them." 1.14. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said: ‘We beseech Thee, O LORD, we beseech Thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for Thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased Thee.’" 1.15. So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging." 1.16. Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows."
4. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 23.34 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 23.34. וְהָיִיתָ כְּשֹׁכֵב בְּלֶב־יָם וּכְשֹׁכֵב בְּרֹאשׁ חִבֵּל׃ 23.34. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
5. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 20 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah, 35.6, 35.16 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 35.16. כִּי הֵקִימוּ בְּנֵי יְהוֹנָדָב בֶּן־רֵכָב אֶת־מִצְוַת אֲבִיהֶם אֲשֶׁר צִוָּם וְהָעָם הַזֶּה לֹא שָׁמְעוּ אֵלָי׃ 35.16. Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto Me;"
7. Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel, 4.1-4.6, 4.8, 4.12-4.14 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 4.1. וּמַאֲכָלְךָ אֲשֶׁר תֹּאכֲלֶנּוּ בְּמִשְׁקוֹל עֶשְׂרִים שֶׁקֶל לַיּוֹם מֵעֵת עַד־עֵת תֹּאכֲלֶנּוּ׃ 4.1. וְאַתָּה בֶן־אָדָם קַח־לְךָ לְבֵנָה וְנָתַתָּה אוֹתָהּ לְפָנֶיךָ וְחַקּוֹתָ עָלֶיהָ עִיר אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִָם׃ 4.2. וְנָתַתָּה עָלֶיהָ מָצוֹר וּבָנִיתָ עָלֶיהָ דָּיֵק וְשָׁפַכְתָּ עָלֶיהָ סֹלְלָה וְנָתַתָּה עָלֶיהָ מַחֲנוֹת וְשִׂים־עָלֶיהָ כָּרִים סָבִיב׃ 4.3. וְאַתָּה קַח־לְךָ מַחֲבַת בַּרְזֶל וְנָתַתָּה אוֹתָהּ קִיר בַּרְזֶל בֵּינְךָ וּבֵין הָעִיר וַהֲכִינֹתָה אֶת־פָּנֶיךָ אֵלֶיהָ וְהָיְתָה בַמָּצוֹר וְצַרְתָּ עָלֶיהָ אוֹת הִיא לְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ 4.4. וְאַתָּה שְׁכַב עַל־צִדְּךָ הַשְּׂמָאלִי וְשַׂמְתָּ אֶת־עֲוֺן בֵּית־יִשְׂרָאֵל עָלָיו מִסְפַּר הַיָּמִים אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁכַּב עָלָיו תִּשָּׂא אֶת־עֲוֺנָם׃ 4.5. וַאֲנִי נָתַתִּי לְךָ אֶת־שְׁנֵי עֲוֺנָם לְמִסְפַּר יָמִים שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵאוֹת וְתִשְׁעִים יוֹם וְנָשָׂאתָ עֲוֺן בֵּית־יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ 4.6. וְכִלִּיתָ אֶת־אֵלֶּה וְשָׁכַבְתָּ עַל־צִדְּךָ הימוני [הַיְמָנִי] שֵׁנִית וְנָשָׂאתָ אֶת־עֲוֺן בֵּית־יְהוּדָה אַרְבָּעִים יוֹם יוֹם לַשָּׁנָה יוֹם לַשָּׁנָה נְתַתִּיו לָךְ׃ 4.12. וְעֻגַת שְׂעֹרִים תֹּאכֲלֶנָּה וְהִיא בְּגֶלְלֵי צֵאַת הָאָדָם תְּעֻגֶנָה לְעֵינֵיהֶם׃ 4.13. וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה כָּכָה יֹאכְלוּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־לַחְמָם טָמֵא בַּגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר אַדִּיחֵם שָׁם׃ 4.14. וָאֹמַר אֲהָהּ אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה הִנֵּה נַפְשִׁי לֹא מְטֻמָּאָה וּנְבֵלָה וּטְרֵפָה לֹא־אָכַלְתִּי מִנְּעוּרַי וְעַד־עַתָּה וְלֹא־בָא בְּפִי בְּשַׂר פִּגּוּל׃ 4.1. Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem;" 4.2. and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about." 4.3. And take thou unto thee an iron griddle, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel." 4.4. Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity." 4.5. For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days; so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel." 4.6. And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee." 4.12. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.’" 4.13. And the LORD said: ‘Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.’" 4.14. Then said I: ‘Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abhorred flesh into my mouth.’"
8. Anon., 1 Enoch, 101.5 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 101.5. in sore trouble And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will
9. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 3.63 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 3.63. A great deal of quite unnecessary trouble was taken first by Zeno, then by Cleanthes and lastly by Chrysippus, to rationalize these purely fanciful myths and explain the reasons for the names by which the various deities are called. But in so doing you clearly admit that the facts are widely different from men's belief, since the so‑called gods are really properties of things, not divine persons at all. So far did this sort of error go, that even harmful things were not only given the names of gods but actually had forms of worship instituted in their honour: witness the temple to Fever on the Palatine, that of Orbona the goddess of bereavementa close to the shrine of the Lares, and the altar consecrated to Misfortune on the Esquiline.
10. Cicero, On Duties, 1.150-1.151 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.150. Iam de artificiis et quaestibus, qui liberales habendi, qui sordidi sint, haec fere accepimus. Primum improbantur ii quaestus, qui in odia hominum incurrunt, ut portitorum, ut faeneratorum. Illiberales autem et sordidi quaestus mercennariorum omnium, quorum operae, non quorum artes emuntur; est enim in illis ipsa merces auctoramentum servitutis. Sordidi etiam putandi, qui mercantur a mercatoribus, quod statim vendant; nihil enim proficiant, nisi admodum mentiantur; nec vero est quicquam turpius vanitate. Opificesque omnes in sordida arte versantur; nec enim quicquam ingenuum habere potest officina. Minimeque artes eae probandae, quae ministrae sunt voluptatum: Cetárii, lanií, coqui, fartóres, piscatóres, ut ait Terentius; adde hue, si placet, unguentarios, saltatores totumque ludum talarium. 1.151. Quibus autem artibus aut prudentia maior inest aut non mediocris utilitas quaeritur, ut medicina, ut architectura, ut doctrina rerum honestarum, eae sunt iis, quorum ordini conveniunt, honestae. Mercatura autem, si tenuis est. sordida putanda est; sin magna et copiosa, multa undique apportans multisque sine vanitate impertiens, non est admodum vituperanda, atque etiam, si satiata quaestu vel contenta potius, ut saepe ex alto in portum, ex ipso portu se in agros possessionesque contulit, videtur iure optimo posse laudari. Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius; de qua quoniam in Catone Maiore satis multa diximus, illim assumes, quae ad hunc locum pertinebunt. 1.150.  Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. Vulgar we must consider those also who buy from wholesale merchants to retail immediately; for they would get no profits without a great deal of downright lying; and verily, there is no action that is meaner than misrepresentation. And all mechanics are engaged in vulgar trades; for no workshop can have anything liberal about it. Least respectable of all are those trades which cater for sensual pleasures: "Fishmongers, butchers, cooks, and poulterers, And fishermen," as Terence says. Add to these, if you please, the perfumers, dancers, and the whole corps de ballet. 1.151.  But the professions in which either a higher degree of intelligence is required or from which no small benefit to society is derived — medicine and architecture, for example, and teaching — these are proper for those whose social position they become. Trade, if it is on a small scale, is to be considered vulgar; but if wholesale and on a large scale, importing large quantities from all parts of the world and distributing to many without misrepresentation, it is not to be greatly disparaged. Nay, it even seems to deserve the highest respect, if those who are engaged in it, satiated, or rather, I should say, satisfied with the fortunes they have made, make their way from the port to a country estate, as they have often made it from the sea into port. But of all the occupations by which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more delightful, none more becoming to a freeman. But since I have discussed this quite fully in my Cato Major, you will find there the material that applies to this point.
11. Septuagint, 1 Maccabees, 3.41 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 3.41. When the traders of the region heard what was said to them, they took silver and gold in immense amounts, and fetters, and went to the camp to get the sons of Israel for slaves. And forces from Syria and the land of the Philistines joined with them.
12. Septuagint, 2 Maccabees, 8.34 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 8.34. The thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews,'
13. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 26.29 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
14. Septuagint, 4 Maccabees, 7.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 7.1. For like a most skilful pilot, the reason of our father Eleazar steered the ship of religion over the sea of the emotions
15. Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, 10.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
16. Horace, Odes, 4.5, 4.5.33-4.5.36 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 4.5. for it was situated upon a rough ridge of a high mountain, with a kind of neck in the middle: where it begins to ascend, it lengthens itself, and declines as much downward before as behind, insomuch that it is like a camel in figure, from whence it is so named, although the people of the country do not pronounce it accurately. 4.5. But when they considered with themselves that they had now no hopes of any terms of accommodation, and reflecting upon it that they could not get away, and that their provisions began already to be short, they were exceedingly cast down, and their courage failed them; 4.5. So Agrippa resolved to go on to Rome without any terror; on account of the change in the government;
17. Horace, Letters, 2.1.15-2.1.16 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
18. Horace, Sermones, 2.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.8. 2. 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 2.8. for 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.
19. Ovid, Fasti, 2.635-2.638, 4.905-4.936 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 2.635. Then when moist night invites us to calm slumber 2.636. Fill the wine-cup full, for the prayer, and say: 2.637. ‘Health, health to you, worthy Caesar, Father of the Country!’ 2.638. And let there be pleasant speech at the pouring of wine. 4.905. A white-robed throng blocked my road. 4.906. A priest was going to the grove of old Mildew (Robigo) 4.907. To offer the entrails of a dog and a sheep to the flames. 4.908. I went with him, so as not to be ignorant of the rite: 4.909. Your priest, Quirinus, pronounced these words: 4.910. ‘Scaly Mildew, spare the blades of corn 4.911. And let their tender tips quiver above the soil. 4.912. Let the crops grow, nurtured by favourable stars 4.913. Until they’re ready for the sickle. 4.914. Your power’s not slight: the corn you blight 4.915. The grieving farmer gives up for lost. 4.916. Wind and showers don’t harm the wheat as much 4.917. Nor gleaming frost that bleaches the yellow corn 4.918. As when the sun heats the moist stalks: 4.919. Then, dreadful goddess, is the time of your wrath. 4.920. Spare us, I pray, take your blighted hands from the harvest 4.921. And don’t harm the crop: it’s enough that you can harm. 4.922. Grip harsh iron rather than the tender wheat 4.923. Destroy whatever can destroy others first. 4.924. Better to gnaw at swords and harmful spears: 4.925. They’re not needed: the world’s at peace. 4.926. Let the rural wealth gleam now, rakes, sturdy hoes 4.927. And curved ploughshare: let rust stain weapons: 4.928. And whoever tries to draw his sword from its sheath 4.929. Let him feel it wedded there by long disuse. 4.930. Don’t you hurt the corn, and may the farmer’ 4.931. Prayer to you always be fulfilled by your absence.’ 4.932. He spoke: to his right there was a soft towel 4.933. And a cup of wine and an incense casket. 4.934. He offered the incense and wine on the hearth 4.935. Sheep’s entrails, and (I saw him) the foul guts of a vile dog. 4.936. Then the priest said: ‘You ask why we offer an odd sacrifice
20. Vergil, Eclogues, 4, 1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
21. Vergil, Georgics, 1.498-1.503 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.498. So too, after rain 1.499. Sunshine and open skies thou mayst forecast 1.500. And learn by tokens sure, for then nor dimmed 1.501. Appear the stars' keen edges, nor the moon 1.502. As borrowing of her brother's beams to rise 1.503. Nor fleecy films to float along the sky.
22. Juvenal, Satires, 5, 11 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
23. New Testament, Acts, 9.1-9.9, 27.18-27.19 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 9.1. But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 9.2. and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 9.3. As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. 9.4. He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? 9.5. He said, "Who are you, Lord?"The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 9.6. But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do. 9.7. The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but seeing no one. 9.8. Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 9.9. He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
24. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 27-59, 61-78, 26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
25. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 27-78, 26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
26. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 1.1.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
27. Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe And Cleitophon, 5.3.7, 5.5.8, 5.7.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
28. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 51.19.7, 51.20.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 51.19.7.  also that he should judge appealed cases, and that in all the courts his vote was to be cast as Athena's vote. The priests and priestesses also in their prayers in behalf of the people and the senate were to pray for him likewise, and at all banquets, not only public but private as well, everybody was to pour a libation to him. 51.20.1.  These were the decrees passed at that time; and when he was consul for the fifth time, with Sextus Apuleius, they ratified all his acts by oath on the very first day of January. When the letter came regarding the Parthians, they further arranged that his name should be included in their hymns equally with those of the gods;
29. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 4.32 (2nd cent. CE 4.32. And about this time it happened that a certain youth of Lacedaemon was charged by his fellow citizens with violating the customs of his country. For though he was descended from Callicratidas who led the navy at the battle of Arginusae, yet he was devoted to seafaring and paid no attention to public affairs; but, instead of doing so, would sail off to Carthage or Sicily in the ships which he had had built. Apollonius then hearing that he was arraigned for this conduct, thought it a pity to desert the youth who had just fallen under the hand of justice, and said to him: My excellent fellow, why do you go about so full of anxiety and with such a gloomy air? A public prosecution, said the other, has been instituted against me, because I go in for seafaring and take no part in public affairs. And was your father or your grandfather a mariner? of course not, said the other; they were all of them chiefs of the gymnasium and Ephors and public guardians; Callicratidas, however, my ancestor, was a real admiral of the fleet. I suppose, said Apollonius, you hardly mean him of Arginusae fame? Yes, that fell in the naval action leading his fleet. Then, said Apollonius, your ancestor's mode of death has not given you any prejudice against a seafaring life? No, by Zeus, said the other, for it is not with a view to conducting battles by sea that I set sail. Well, and can you mention any rabble of people more wretched and ill-starred than merchants and skippers? In the first place they roam from sea to sea, looking for some market that is badly stocked; and then they sell and are sold, associating with factors and brokers, and they subject their own heads to the most unholy rate of interest in their hurry to get back to the principal; and if they do well, their ship has a lucky voyage, and they tell you a long story of how they never wrecked it either willingly or unwillingly; but if their gains do not balance their debts, they jump into their long boats and dash their ships on to the rocks, and make no bones as sailors of robbing others of their substance, pretending in the most blasphemous manner that it is an act of God. And even if the seafaring crowd who go on voyages be not so bad as I make them out to be; yet is there any shame worse than this, for a man who is a citizen of Sparta and the child of forbears who of old lived in the heart of Sparta, to secrete himself in the hold of a ship, oblivious of Lycurgus and Iphitus, thinking of nought but of cargoes and petty bills of lading? For if he thinks of nothing else, he might at least bear in mind that Sparta herself, so long as she stuck to the land, enjoyed a fame reaching to heaven; but when she began to covet the sea, she sank down and down, and was blotted out at last, not only on the sea but on the land as well. The young man was so overcome by these arguments, that he bowed his head to the earth and wept, because he heard he was so degenerate from his fathers; and he sold the ships by which he lived. And when Apollonius saw that he was restored to his senses and inclined to embrace a career on land, he led him before the Ephors and obtained his acquittal.
30. Pliny The Younger, Panegyric, 74 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
31. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Aurelian, 18.8-18.11 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abstractions divinized	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
acclamations	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
achilles tatius, leukippe and kleitophon	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 276
actium, battle of	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55, 56
allotment	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
animals, color descriptions and uses of, dogs	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
anonymity	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55
apocalyptic	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
apollo, as patron god of augustus	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55, 56
apollo, traditional opponent of dionysus	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55, 56
apuleius, metamorphoses	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 276
augustus, acclaimed	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
augustus, divine honours	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55, 56, 199, 200, 201
augustus, mortality	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 199, 200, 201
benefaction	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
bright goddess (dea dia)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
brutus, marcus	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
calories	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
cannibalism, and consumption of human flesh in fiction'	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 276
census	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
classicism	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
clothing, colors of	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76, 79
coinage	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55, 56
colors, black	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
colors, gold, golden	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 79
colors, green	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
colors, red	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
colors, white	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
colors, yellow	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 79
commerce	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
conspicuous consumption	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
dea dia (bright goddess)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
decadence	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
decline	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
deified heroes, canon or catalogue of	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 199
demographics	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
dioscuri	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 199
divine commands, violation of sacred law	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
divinization of abstractions	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
dream imagery, animals	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
dream imagery, religious	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
dream imagery, violation of sacred law	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
economics, debt	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics, employment	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics, labor	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics, property, assets, goods	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics, reciprocal exchange	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics, wealth	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
economics of status	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
emperors, nero	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 79
empire, roman	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
equality	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
esquiline hill	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
eyes, descriptions and colors of	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
feliciter	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
festivals	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
fiscal regimes	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
fortunata	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
freedmen	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76, 79; Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
friendship	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
frugality, enforced	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
frugality, legislated	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
frugality, rhetoric of	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
gellius, aulus	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
gift	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
gods, abstractions divinized	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
gratitude	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
greece	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
greed	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
heart	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
hebrew bible	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
historia augusta	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
honor	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
husbandry	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
imperial cults	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
incubo	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
irony	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
iugera	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
kindness	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
kraybill, j.	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
lexiphanes, on salaried posts	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 276
libertas	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 55
luxuria, and moralistic attitudes, against	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76, 79
merchants	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
mesomedes	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
methodology, sociological criticism	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
minerals and gems	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 79
mobility, social	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
otium	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 199
patrimony	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
patronage	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
pertinax, emperor	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
peter and cornelius' visions, content"	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
peter and cornelius' visions, form" '669.0_39.0@sacred law	Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 39
petronius, satyrica, imitation of plato's symposium"	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 276
petronius, satyrica, trimalchio the technophile	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
petronius, satyrica	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 276
pigments, sources of	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 79
politics	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
poverty	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
principate	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
prometheus	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
religions, roman, abstractions divinized	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
religions, roman, dea dia	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
religions, roman, festivals	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
religions, roman	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
revenues	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
revolution, literary	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
rhetoric	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
rimell, victoria	König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 277
robigus (wheat-rust)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
sailors	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
salisubsilus	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
satisficing	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
seafarers	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
self-fashioning	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
self-sufficiency	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
senate/senators	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
ship captain	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
slavery (servant)	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 286
slaves	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76, 79; Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
social classes, colors appropriate, for	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76, 79
socrates	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
sprinkling, of colored materials	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 79
subsistence	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
surplus	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
teeth	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
temples, as display expenditure	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
theocritus	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 56
timelessness	Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 199
toga (garment)	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
trade	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
trade guilds	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
trajan, emperor	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271
trees	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
trimalchio	Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 271; Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76, 79; Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
tyre, destruction of	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
verona	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 197
wealth, critique of	Mathews, Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John (2013) 205
wife, wives	Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34
women, descriptions of	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76
wonder-culture, commodus the technophile	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
wonder-culture, in imperial fiction, mesomedes	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
wonder-culture, in imperial fiction, petronius	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
wonder-culture, in imperial fiction	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
wonder-culture	Mheallaigh, Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality (2014) 277
wool	Goldman, Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome (2013) 76