| 1. Sallust, Historiae, 2.70 m (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •frugality, legislated Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 |
2. Horace, Sermones, 2.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •frugality, legislated Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 | 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. |
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| 3. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 4.2.123-4.2.124 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •frugality, legislated Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 |
| 4. Juvenal, Satires, 11, 5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 |
5. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 26-42, 44-78, 43 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 | 43. He was a bore, and Phileros shouted out: "Oh, let us remember the living. He has got his deserts; he lived decently and died decently. What has he got to grumble at? He started with twopence, and he was always ready to pick a halfpenny out of the dirt with his teeth. So he grew and grew like a honeycomb. Upon my word, I believe he left a clear hundred thousand, and all in hard cash. Still, I have eaten the dog's tongue, I must speak the truth. He had a rough mouth, and talked continually, and was more of a discord than a man. His brother was a fine fellow, stood by his friends, open-handed and kept a good table. To begin with, he caught a Tartar: but his first vintage set him on his feet: he used to get any price he asked for his wine. And what made him hold up his head was that he came into an estate out of which he got more than had been left to him. And that blockhead, in a fit of passion with his brother, left the family property away to some nobody or other. He that flies from his own family has far to travel. But he had some eaves-dropping slaves who did for him. A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a business man. Still no doubt he enjoyed himself every day of his life. Blessed is he who gets the gift, not he for whom it is meant. He was a real Fortune's darling, lead turned gold in his hands. Yes, it is easy when everything goes fair and square. And how many years do you think he had on his shoulders? Seventy and more. But he was a tough old thing, carried his age well, as black as a crow. I had known him world without end, and he was still merry. I really do not think he spared a single creature in his house. No, he was still a gay one, ready for anything. Well, I do not blame him: it is only his past pleasures he can take with him." |
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6. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 26-65, 67-78, 66 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 | 66. "Ah," said Trimalchio, "but what did you have for dinner?" "I will tell you if I can," he said, "but my memory is in such a fine way that I often forget my own name. Well, first we had a pig crowned with a wine-cup, garnished with honey cakes, and liver very well done, and beetroot of course, and pure wholemeal bread, which I prefer to white myself; it puts strength into you, and is good for the bowels. The next dish was a cold tart, with excellent Spanish wine poured over warm honey. Indeed I ate a lot of the tart, and gave myself such a soaking of honey. Pease and lupines were handed, a choice of nuts and an apple each. I took two myself, and I have got them here tied up in my napkin: for if I do not bring some present back for my pet slave-boy there will be trouble. Oh! yes, my wife reminds me. There was a piece of bear on a side dish. Scintilla was rash enough to taste it, and nearly brought up her own inside. I ate over a pound myself, for it tasted like proper wild boar. What I say is this, since bears eat up us poor men, how much better right has a poor man to eat up a bear? To finish up with we had cheese mellowed in new wine, and snails all round, and pieces of tripe, and liver in little dishes, and eggs in caps, and turnip, and mustard, and a dish of forcemeat. But hold hard, Palamedes. Pickled olives were brought round in a dish too, and some greedy creatures took three handfuls. For we had let the ham go. |
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| 7. Gellius, Attic Nights, 2.1.1, 2.24.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •frugality, legislated Found in books: Viglietti and Gildenhard, Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2020) 34 |
