[The Satyricon<br> Complete by Petronius Arbiter]@TWC D-Link book
The Satyricon
Complete

CHAPTER THE SEVENTY-FIFTH
3/3

What, grunting-sow, still bawling?
I'll see to it that you've something to bawl for, but as I started to say, it was my thrift that brought me to my fortune.

I was just as tall as that candlestick when I came over from Asia; every day I used to measure myself by it, and I would smear my lips with oil so my beard would sprout all the sooner.

I was my master's 'mistress' for fourteen years, for there's nothing wrong in doing what your master orders, and I satisfied my mistress, too, during that time, you know what I mean, but I'll say no more, for I'm not one of your braggarts!".


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books