Word: petronius
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West Europe, Ltd. Connolly's less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom. At Eton little Cyril preserved a pious air in chapel, though reading his blackbound Petronius instead of the prayer book; in more adult ways he has continued...
...Gordon, Lord Byron's writings "not fit to be read by any person within or without the University [of Texas]." The House resolved to investigate the $20,000 purchase, for the university's noted rare-book collection, of early editions of Byron, Browning, Lamb, Shelley, Tennyson and Petronius Arbiter. All the House charged, were "obscene" or "atheistic...
Latin Poetry; Tacitus, Pliny, Petronius, is the ambitious title of Latin 1, but perhaps too much material is covered, and it was recommended that Petrenius should be omitted and lectures substituted. Neither Professor Greenenor Mr. Peebles present the course as well as concentrators believed they might, although the organization is all right. Latin Composition seems to be fairly well taught in Latin 3. The first half of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, will be given by Mr. Mynors of Balliol College, Oxford. The second half on Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, is taken by Professor Pease to whom...
Arms for Venus (by Randolph Carter; Mary Hone, producer), elaborated from a tale by Petronius, deals with certain aspects of human frailty in the Rome of Emperor Nero's time. This provides Author Carter, who wrote the play while studying for a graduate degree at Harvard, with an opportunity to mix Roman and Christian mythology in such oaths as "I'll be Jove-damned...
...person who composed Wednesday's Gantry-like denouncement of Nemo, and deification of America's Winged Hypocrite, always bases his judgment of people's character on what they write, I should like extremely to hear his description of James Joyee's home-life. It would certainly make Rabelais and Petronius look like rank amateurs...