1. Homer, Iliad, 12.445-12.450, 21.403-21.406 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 232 | 12.445. / And Hector grasped and bore a stone that lay before the gate, thick at the base, but sharp at the point; not easily might two men, the mightiest of the folk, have upheaved it from the ground upon a wain—men, such as mortals now are—yet lightly did he wield it even alone; 12.446. / And Hector grasped and bore a stone that lay before the gate, thick at the base, but sharp at the point; not easily might two men, the mightiest of the folk, have upheaved it from the ground upon a wain—men, such as mortals now are—yet lightly did he wield it even alone; 12.447. / And Hector grasped and bore a stone that lay before the gate, thick at the base, but sharp at the point; not easily might two men, the mightiest of the folk, have upheaved it from the ground upon a wain—men, such as mortals now are—yet lightly did he wield it even alone; 12.448. / And Hector grasped and bore a stone that lay before the gate, thick at the base, but sharp at the point; not easily might two men, the mightiest of the folk, have upheaved it from the ground upon a wain—men, such as mortals now are—yet lightly did he wield it even alone; 12.449. / And Hector grasped and bore a stone that lay before the gate, thick at the base, but sharp at the point; not easily might two men, the mightiest of the folk, have upheaved it from the ground upon a wain—men, such as mortals now are—yet lightly did he wield it even alone; 12.450. / and the son of crooked-counselling Cronos made it light for him. And as when a shepherd easily beareth the fleece of a ram, taking it in one hand, and but little doth the weight thereof burden him; even so Hector lifted up the stone and bare it straight against the doors that guarded the close and strongly fitted gates— 21.403. / So saying he smote upon her tasselled aegis—the awful aegis against which not even the lightning of Zeus can prevail—thereon blood-stained Ares smote with his long spear. But she gave ground, and seized with her stout hand a stone that lay upon the plain, black and jagged and great, 21.404. / So saying he smote upon her tasselled aegis—the awful aegis against which not even the lightning of Zeus can prevail—thereon blood-stained Ares smote with his long spear. But she gave ground, and seized with her stout hand a stone that lay upon the plain, black and jagged and great, 21.405. / that men of former days had set to be the boundary mark of a field. Therewith she smote furious Ares on the neck, and loosed his limbs. Over seven roods he stretched in his fall, and befouled his hair with dust, and about him his armour clanged. But Pallas Athene broke into a laugh, and vaunting over him she spake winged words: 21.406. / that men of former days had set to be the boundary mark of a field. Therewith she smote furious Ares on the neck, and loosed his limbs. Over seven roods he stretched in his fall, and befouled his hair with dust, and about him his armour clanged. But Pallas Athene broke into a laugh, and vaunting over him she spake winged words: |
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| 2. Homer, Odyssey, 9.371-9.374 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 230, 233 |
3. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 234-235, 249, 426, 437, 604, 231 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 20, 21| 231. εἴσω μετ' ἐμοῦ δεῦρ' εἴσιθ': ἡ γὰρ οἰκία | |
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4. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 232| 254e. ἡνίοχος ἔτι μᾶλλον ταὐτὸν πάθος παθών, ὥσπερ ἀπὸ ὕσπληγος ἀναπεσών, ἔτι μᾶλλον τοῦ ὑβριστοῦ ἵππου ἐκ τῶν ὀδόντων βίᾳ ὀπίσω σπάσας τὸν χαλινόν, τήν τε κακηγόρον γλῶτταν καὶ τὰς γνάθους καθῄμαξεν καὶ τὰ σκέλη τε καὶ τὰ ἰσχία πρὸς τὴν γῆν ἐρείσας ὀδύναις ἔδωκεν. ΣΩ. ὅταν δὲ ταὐτὸν πολλάκις πάσχων ὁ πονηρὸς τῆς ὕβρεως λήξῃ, ταπεινωθεὶς ἕπεται ἤδη τῇ τοῦ ἡνιόχου προνοίᾳ, καὶ ὅταν ἴδῃ τὸν καλόν, φόβῳ διόλλυται· ὥστε συμβαίνει τότʼ ἤδη τὴν τοῦ ἐραστοῦ ψυχὴν τοῖς παιδικοῖς αἰδουμένην τε καὶ δεδιυῖαν | 254e. and pulls shamelessly. The effect upon the charioteer is the same as before, but more pronounced; he falls back like a racer from the starting-rope, pulls the bit backward even more violently than before from the teeth of the unruly horse, covers his scurrilous tongue and jaws with blood, and forces his legs and haunches to the ground, causing him much pain. Socrates. Now when the bad horse has gone through the same experience many times and has ceased from his unruliness, he is humbled and follows henceforth the wisdom of the charioteer, and when he sees the beautiful one, he is overwhelmed with fear; and so from that time on the soul of the lover follows the beloved in reverence and awe. |
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| 5. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 843-851, 853-873, 852 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 22 |
| 6. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 20, 21 |
| 7. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 21 |
| 8. Plautus, Asinaria, 819 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 22 |
| 9. Plautus, Trinummus, 1, 10-19, 2, 20-22, 223-229, 23, 230-259, 26, 260-275, 28, 3, 31, 33, 37-38, 4, 44, 5-6, 675-678, 7, 9, 8 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
| 10. Plautus, Truculentus, 1 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 20 |
11. Terence, Adelphi, 760-762 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23| 762. Hancine vitam? hoscine mores? hanc dementiam? | |
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12. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 4.26 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 234| 4.26. definiunt autem animi aegrotationem opinationem St. fr. 3, 427 vehementem de re non expetenda, tamquam valde expetenda sit, inhaerentem et penitus insitam. quod autem nascitur ex offensione, ita definiunt: opinionem vehementem de re non fugienda inhaerentem et penitus insitam tamquam fugienda; fugienda expetenda KRH haec autem opinatio est iudicatio iuditio K 1 ( add. 2 ) se scire, quod nesciat. aegrotationi autem talia quaedam subiecta sunt: avaritia, ambitio, mulierositas, pervicacia, pervicatia KV ligurritio, vinulentia, vinulentia Non. vinol. X cf. Mue. cuppedia, ambitio ... 23 cuppedia Non. 85, 10 cu pedia G et si qua similia. est autem avaritia opinatio vehemens de pecunia, quasi valde expetenda sit, inhaerens et penitus insita, similisque est eiusdem generis definitio reliquarum. | |
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| 13. Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 76 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 26 |
14. Cicero, Pro Murena, 13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 232| 13. saltatorem appellat L. Lucium L. y2w : fl. (falso y1 ) cett. Murenam Cato. maledictum est, si vere obicitur, vehementis accusatoris, sin falso, maledici conviciatoris. qua re cum ista sis auctoritate, non debes, M. Marce Cato, adripere M. (Marce) Cato arripere B y2 : marre anni ripere S A : Marce, arripere cett. maledictum ex trivio aut ex aut ex aut A p scurrarum aliquo convicio convivio convivio Lambinus neque temere consulem populi Romani saltatorem vocare, sed circumspicere circumspicere x2, Gulielmius : cumspicere Sx1 : conspicere cett. quibus praeterea vitiis adfectum esse necesse sit eum cui vere istud obici possit. nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit, neque in solitudine neque in convivio moderato atque honesto. tempestivi intempestivi xy convivi, amoeni loci, multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio. tu mihi adripis hoc hoc id y1 quod necesse est omnium vitiorum esse postremum, relinquis illa quibus remotis hoc vitium omnino esse non potest? nullum turpe convivium, non amor amors (-s add. m. 2) S ( cf. § 26 aios, conspicios), non comissatio, non libido, non sumptus ostenditur, et, cum ea non reperiantur quae voluptatis nomen habent quamquam vitiosa sunt, in quo ipsam luxuriam reperire non potes, in eo te umbram luxuriae reperturum putas? | |
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| 15. Cicero, Philippicae, 2.63, 2.76 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 35, 230 |
| 16. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.5.27 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 121 |
| 17. Cicero, In Pisonem, 22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 232 |
18. Cicero, De Oratore, 2.171, 3.168 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23, 35| 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. | |
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19. Cicero, On Duties, 1.92, 1.123 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 37| 1.92. Illud autem sic est iudicandum, maximas geri res et maximi animi ab iis, qui res publicas regant, quod earum administratio latissime pateat ad plurimosque pertineat; esse autem magni animi et fuisse multos etiam in vita otiosa, qui aut investigarent aut conarentur magna quaedam seseque suarum rerum finibus continerent aut interiecti inter philosophos et eos, qui rem publicam administrarent, delectarentur re sua familiari non eam quidem omni ratione exaggerantes neque excludentes ab eius usu suos potiusque et amicis impertientes et rei publicae, si quando usus esset. Quae primum bene parta sit nullo neque turpi quaestu neque odioso, deinde augeatur ratione, diligentia, parsimonia, tum quam plurimis, modo dignis, se utilem praebeat nec libidini potius luxuriaeque quam liberalitati et beneficentiae pareat. Haec praescripta servantem licet magnifice, graviter animoseque vivere atque etiam simpliciter, fideliter, ° vere hominum amice. 1.123. Senibus autem labores corporis minuendi, exercitationes animi etiam augendae videntur; danda vero opera, ut et amicos et iuventutem et maxime rem publicam consilio et prudentia quam plurimum adiuvent. Nihil autem magis cavendum est senectuti, quam ne languori se desidiaeque dedat; luxuria vero cum omni aetati turpis, tum senectuti foedissima est; sin autem etiam libidinum intemperantia accessit, duplex malum est, quod et ipsa senectus dedecus concipit et facit adulescentium impudentioren intemperantiarn. | 1.92. To revert to the original question â we must decide that the most important activities, those most indicative of a great spirit, are performed by the men who direct the affairs of nations; for such public activities have the widest scope and touch the lives of the most people. But even in the life of retirement there are and there have been many high-souled men who have been engaged in important inquiries or embarked on most important enterprises and yet kept themselves within the limits of their own affairs; or, taking a middle course between philosophers on the one hand and statesmen on the other, they were content with managing their own property â not increasing it by any and every means nor debarring their kindred from the enjoyment of it, but rather, if ever there were need, sharing it with their friends and with the state. Only let it, in the first place, be honestly acquired, by the use of no dishonest or fraudulent means; let it, in the second place, increase by wisdom, industry, and thrift; and, finally, let it be made available for the use of as many as possible (if only they are worthy) and be at the service of generosity and beneficence rather than of sensuality and excess. By observing these rules, one may live in magnificence, dignity, and independence, and yet in honour, truth and charity toward all. 1.123. The old, on the other hand, should, it seems, have their physical labours reduced; their mental activities should be actually increased. They should endeavour, too, by means of their counsel and practical wisdom to be of as much service as possible to their friends and to the young, and above all to the state. But there is nothing against which old age has to be more on its guard than against surrendering to feebleness and idleness, while luxury, a vice in any time of life, is in old age especially scandalous. But if excess in sensual indulgence is added to luxurious living, it is a twofold evil; for old age not only disgraces itself; it also serves to make the excesses of the young more shameless. |
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20. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 2.21-2.22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 35| 2.21. 'Si ea, quae sunt luxuriosis efficientia voluptatum, voluptatem A 2 BENV liberarent eos deorum et mortis et doloris metu docerentque qui essent fines cupiditatum, nihil haberemus quod reprehenderemus, add. Dav. cum undique complerentur voluptatibus nec haberent ulla ex parte aliquid aut dolens aut aegrum, id est autem malum.' Hoc loco tenere se Triarius non potuit. Obsecro, inquit, Torquate, haec dicit Epicurus? quod mihi quidem visus est, cum sciret, velle tamen confitentem audire Torquatum. At ille non pertimuit saneque fidenter: Istis quidem ipsis verbis, inquit; sed quid sentiat, non videtis. Si alia sentit, inquam, alia loquitur, numquam intellegam quid sentiat; sed plane dicit quod intellegit. idque si ita dicit, non esse reprehendendos luxuriosos, si sapientes sint, dicit absurde, similiter et si dicat non reprehendendos parricidas, si nec cupidi sint nec deos metuant nec mortem nec dolorem. et tamen quid attinet luxuriosis ullam exceptionem dari aut fingere aliquos, qui, cum luxuriose viverent, a summo philosopho non reprehenderentur eo nomine dumtaxat, cetera caverent? 2.22. sed tamen nonne reprehenderes, Epicure, luxuriosos ob eam ipsam causam, quod ita viverent, ut persequerentur cuiusque modi voluptates, cum esset praesertim, ut ais tu, summa voluptas nihil dolere? atqui reperiemus asotos primum ita non religiosos, ut edint edint Mdv. edient A 1 RN edent A 2 edant V om. BE de patella, deinde ita mortem mortem ita BE non timentes, ut illud in ore habeant ex Hymnide: 'Mihi sex menses sa/tis sunt vitae, se/ptimum Orco spo/ndeo'. iam doloris medicamenta illa Epicurea tamquam de narthecio proment: Si gravis, brevis; si longus, levis. Unum nescio, quo modo possit, si luxuriosus sit, finitas cupiditates habere. | 2.21. 'If the things in which sensualists find pleasure could deliver them from the fear of the gods and of death and pain, and could teach them to set bounds to their desires, we should have no reason to blame them, since on every hand they would be abundantly supplied with pleasures, and on no side would be exposed to any pain or grief, which are the sole evil.' " At this point Triarius could contain himself no longer. "Seriously now, Torquatus," he broke out, "does Epicurus really say that?" (For my own part, I believe that he knew it to be true, but wanted to hear Torquatus admit it.) Torquatus, nothing daunted, answered with complete assurance: "Certainly, those are his very words. But you don't perceive his meaning." "Oh," I retorted, "if he means one thing and says another, I never shall understand his meaning. But what he understands he expresses clearly enough. If what he here says is that sensualists are not to be blamed provided they are wise men, he is talking nonsense. He might as well say that parricides are not to be blamed provided they are free from avarice and from fear of the gods, of death and pain. Even so, what is the point of granting the sensual any saving clause? Why imagine certain fictitious persons who, though living sensually, would not be blamed by the wisest of philosophers for their sensuality, provided they avoided other faults? 2.22. All the same, Epicurus, would not you blame sensualists for the very reason that their one object in life is the pursuit of pleasure of any and every sort, especially as according to you the highest pleasure is to feel no pain? Yet we shall find profligates in the first place so devoid of religious scruples that they will 'eat the food on the paten,' and secondly so fearless of death as to be always quoting the lines from the Hymnis: Enough for me six months of life, the seventh to Hell I pledge! Or if they want an antidote to pain, out comes from their phial the great Epicurean panacea, 'Short if it's strong, light if it's long.' Only one point I can't make out: how can a man at once be a sensualist and keep his desires within bounds? |
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| 21. Cicero, On Old Age, 13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 232 |
22. Cicero, De Finibus, 2.21-2.22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 35 | 2.21. 'If the things in which sensualists find pleasure could deliver them from the fear of the gods and of death and pain, and could teach them to set bounds to their desires, we should have no reason to blame them, since on every hand they would be abundantly supplied with pleasures, and on no side would be exposed to any pain or grief, which are the sole evil.' " At this point Triarius could contain himself no longer. "Seriously now, Torquatus," he broke out, "does Epicurus really say that?" (For my own part, I believe that he knew it to be true, but wanted to hear Torquatus admit it.) Torquatus, nothing daunted, answered with complete assurance: "Certainly, those are his very words. But you don't perceive his meaning." "Oh," I retorted, "if he means one thing and says another, I never shall understand his meaning. But what he understands he expresses clearly enough. If what he here says is that sensualists are not to be blamed provided they are wise men, he is talking nonsense. He might as well say that parricides are not to be blamed provided they are free from avarice and from fear of the gods, of death and pain. Even so, what is the point of granting the sensual any saving clause? Why imagine certain fictitious persons who, though living sensually, would not be blamed by the wisest of philosophers for their sensuality, provided they avoided other faults? 2.22. All the same, Epicurus, would not you blame sensualists for the very reason that their one object in life is the pursuit of pleasure of any and every sort, especially as according to you the highest pleasure is to feel no pain? Yet we shall find profligates in the first place so devoid of religious scruples that they will 'eat the food on the paten,' and secondly so fearless of death as to be always quoting the lines from the Hymnis: Enough for me six months of life, the seventh to Hell I pledge! Or if they want an antidote to pain, out comes from their phial the great Epicurean panacea, 'Short if it's strong, light if it's long.' Only one point I can't make out: how can a man at once be a sensualist and keep his desires within bounds? |
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| 23. Horace, Letters, 1.1.38 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 234 |
| 24. Horace, Sermones, 2.3, 2.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23, 87 |
25. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.1-1.20, 1.31-1.40 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 230, 231| 1.1. Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas, 1.2. alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa 1.3. quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis 1.4. concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum 1.5. concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis: 1.6. te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli 1.7. adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus 1.8. summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti 1.9. placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum. 1.10. nam simul ac species patefactast verna diei 1.11. et reserata viget genitabilis aura favoni, 1.12. aeriae primum volucris te, diva, tuumque 1.13. significant initum perculsae corda tua vi. 1.14. et rapidos trat amnis: ita capta lepore 1.15. inde ferae pecudes persultant pabula laeta 1.16. te sequitur cupide quo quamque inducere pergis. 1.17. denique per maria ac montis fluviosque rapacis 1.18. frondiferasque domos avium camposque virentis 1.19. omnibus incutiens blandum per pectora amorem 1.20. efficis ut cupide generatim saecla propagent. 1.31. nam tu sola potes tranquilla pace iuvare 1.32. mortalis, quoniam belli fera moenera Mavors 1.33. armipotens regit, in gremium qui saepe tuum se 1.34. reiicit aeterno devictus vulnere amoris, 1.35. atque ita suspiciens tereti cervice reposta 1.36. pascit amore avidos inhians in te, dea, visus 1.37. eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore. 1.38. hunc tu, diva, tuo recubantem corpore sancto 1.39. circum fusa super, suavis ex ore loquellas 1.40. funde petens placidam Romanis, incluta, pacem; | |
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| 26. Horace, Odes, 1.11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 86 |
27. Anon., Rhetorica Ad Herennium, 2.34 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 26 | 2.34. Again, the Proposition is defective if it is based on a false enumeration and we present fewer possibilities than there are in reality, as follows: "There are two things, men of the jury, which ever impel men to crime: luxury and greed." "But what about love?," some one will say, "ambition, superstition, the fear of death, the passion for power, and, in short, the great multitude of other motives?" Again the enumeration is false when the possibilities are fewer than we present, as follows: "There are three emotions that agitate all men: fear, desire, and worry." Indeed it had been enough to say fear and desire, since worry is necessarily conjoined with both. Again, the Proposition is defective if it traces things too far back, as follows: "Stupidity is the mother and matter of all evils. She gives birth to boundless desires. Furthermore, boundless desires have neither end nor limit. They breed avarice. Avarice, further, drives men to any crime you will. Thus it is avarice which has led our adversaries to take this crime upon themselves." Here what was said last was enough for a Proposition, lest we copy Ennius and the other poets, who are licensed to speak as follows: "O that in Pelion's woods the firwood timbers had not fallen to the ground, cut down by axes, and that therefrom had not commenced the undertaking to begin the ship which now is named with the name of Argo, because in it sailed the picked Argive heroes who were seeking the golden fleece of the ram from the Colchians, with guile, at King Pelias' command. For then never would my mistress, misled, have set foot away from home." Indeed here it were adequate, if poets had a care for mere adequacy, to say: "Would that my misled mistress had not set foot away from home." In the Proposition, then, we must also carefully guard against this tracing of things back to their remotest origin; for the Proposition does not, like many others, need to be refuted, but is on its own account defective. |
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| 28. Julius Caesar, De Bello Civli, 3.96.1-3.96.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 37 |
| 29. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 55.6.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 234 |
| 30. Longinus, On The Sublime, 44.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 26 |
| 31. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 9.66, 19.137 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 121 |
| 32. Seneca The Younger, De Consolatione Ad Helviam, 10.8-10.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 121 |
| 33. Seneca The Younger, De Vita Beata (Dialogorum Liber Vii), 6.1, 11.2-11.4, 12.3-12.4, 17.1, 18.3, 20.4, 21.1-21.4, 22.1, 22.4-22.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 118, 121 |
| 34. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 51.1, 51.5, 90.19, 97.1, 104.1, 114.6, 116.3, 120.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 37, 121, 144, 231 |
| 35. Persius, Satires, 5.132-5.139, 5.142, 5.151-5.153, 5.189-5.191 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 86, 87 |
| 36. Persius, Saturae, 5.132-5.139, 5.142, 5.151-5.153, 5.189-5.191 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 86, 87 |
| 37. Tacitus, Annals, 16.18.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 118 |
| 38. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 55.6.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 234 |
39. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 2.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 142 | 2.6. To Avitus. It would be a long story - and it is of no importance - to tell you how I came to be dining - for I am no particular friend of his - with a man who thought he combined elegance with economy, but who appeared to me to be both mean and lavish, for he set the best dishes before himself and a few others and treated the rest to cheap and scrappy food. He had apportioned the wine in small decanters of three different kinds, not in order to give his guests their choice but so that they might not refuse. He had one kind for himself and us, another for his less distinguished friends - for he is a man who classifies his acquaintances - and a third for his own freedmen and those of his guests. The man who sat next to me noticed this and asked me if I approved of it. I said no. "Then how do you arrange matters?" he asked. "I set the same before all," I answered, "for I invite my friends to dine not to grade them one above the other, * and those whom I have set at equal places at my board and on my couches I treat as equals in every respect.""What! even the freedmen?" he said. "Yes," I replied, "for then I regard them as my guests at table, not as freedmen." He went on |
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40. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 2.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 142 | 2.6. To Avitus. It would be a long story - and it is of no importance - to tell you how I came to be dining - for I am no particular friend of his - with a man who thought he combined elegance with economy, but who appeared to me to be both mean and lavish, for he set the best dishes before himself and a few others and treated the rest to cheap and scrappy food. He had apportioned the wine in small decanters of three different kinds, not in order to give his guests their choice but so that they might not refuse. He had one kind for himself and us, another for his less distinguished friends - for he is a man who classifies his acquaintances - and a third for his own freedmen and those of his guests. The man who sat next to me noticed this and asked me if I approved of it. I said no. "Then how do you arrange matters?" he asked. "I set the same before all," I answered, "for I invite my friends to dine not to grade them one above the other, * and those whom I have set at equal places at my board and on my couches I treat as equals in every respect.""What! even the freedmen?" he said. "Yes," I replied, "for then I regard them as my guests at table, not as freedmen." He went on |
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| 41. Prudentius, Hamartigenia, 279-299, 856-858 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 230 |
| 42. Evagrius Ponticus, Praktikos, 10-13, 6-9, 14 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 234 |
| 43. Cassian, Conferences, 5.2-5.4, 7.32, 22.3 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 234 |
| 44. Claudianus, In Rufinium Libri Ii, 1.37-1.38 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 20 |
| 45. Prudentius, Psychomachia, 326.7 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 228, 229, 230 |
49. Vergil, Aeneis, 5.468-5.470, 12.896-12.902 Tagged with subjects: •personification vii, Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 232, 233 | 5.468. the proudest of the garlands, if one stroke 5.469. of inauspicious fortune had not fallen 5.470. on Salius and me.” So saying, he showed 12.896. the serried ranks; their naked blades of steel 12.897. are thick as ripening corn; wilt thou the while 12.898. peed in thy chariot o'er this empty plain?” 12.899. Dazed and bewildered by such host of ills, 12.900. Turnus stood dumb; in his pent bosom stirred 12.901. hame, frenzy, sorrow, a despairing love 12.902. goaded to fury, and a warrior's pride |
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| 50. Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, 945-946 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 23 |
