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          id: 5218
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction
        date: None
       words: 16021
      flesch: 64
     summary: (On catching sight of us, they attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. For this reason, it was late when I reached the city, and, entering the inn, beheld Ascyltos, stretched out, half dead, upon a cot.
    keywords: age; ascyltos; author; book; chapter; day; giton; hands; house; inn; lycas; lycurgus; means; night; petronius; place; quartilla; room; satyricon; time; trimalchio; tryphaena; woman; work
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 5219
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio
        date: None
       words: 20035
      flesch: 81
     summary: Instead of thrushes, fattened chickens were served, one to each of us, and goose eggs with pastry caps on them, which same Trimalchio earnestly entreated us to eat, informing us that the chickens had all been boned. Menelaus had scarcely ceased speaking when Trimalchio snapped his fingers; the eunuch, hearing the signal, held the chamber-pot for him while he still continued playing.
    keywords: boy; business; chapter; dining; dinner; fellow; fortunata; good; hand; head; home; house; man; master; place; right; room; silver; slave; table; things; time; trimalchio; water; wine
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 5220
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 03: Encolpius and His Companions
        date: None
       words: 8178
      flesch: 75
     summary: Some of the public, who were loafing in the portico, threw stones at the reciting Eumolpus and he, taking note of this tribute to his genius, covered his head and bolted out of the temple. Fearing some one might overhear our plans, I bade him hush his complaints and, leaving Eumolpus behind --for
    keywords: ascyltos; bed; boy; chapter; day; death; eumolpus; giton; hands; lad; love; man; night
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 5221
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea
        date: None
       words: 13970
      flesch: 73
     summary: Be reasonable, then; forego your revenge and permit free men to proceed to their destination without injury. Can you read slavery on their foreheads, and see upon the faces of free men the brand-marks of a punishment which was self-inflicted!
    keywords: blood; chapter; day; earth; eumolpus; face; giton; gods; good; hair; hands; lycas; man; men; night; punishment; sea; ship; thou; thy; time; tryphaena
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 5222
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona Affairs
        date: None
       words: 10045
      flesch: 74
     summary: Meditating upon this unscrupulous method of getting around childless old men, I began to take thought of the present state of our own affairs and made use of the occasion to warn Eumolpus that he might be bitten in biting the biters. But, although I daily crammed my bloated carcass to overflowing with good things, and began more and more to believe that Fortune had turned away her face from keeping watch upon me, I frequently meditated, nevertheless, upon my present state and upon its cause. Suppose, thought I, some wily legacy hunter should dispatch an agent to Africa and catch us in our lie?
    keywords: chapter; chrysis; circe; eumolpus; eyes; face; fear; giton; gods; goose; hands; love; mistress; pleasure; time; words
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 5223
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
        date: None
       words: 20491
      flesch: 68
     summary: And last of all, the multitude of eunuchs, ranging in age, from old men to boys, pale and hideous from the twisted deformity of their features; so that, go where one will, seeing groups of mutilated men, he will detest the memory of Semiramis, that ancient queen who was the first to emasculate young men of tender age; thwarting the intent of Nature, and forcing her from her course. 4, remarks: Some there are that grovel before rich men, old men or young, childless or unmarried, or even wives and children, for the purpose of so influencing their wishes and them by deft and dextrous finesse.
    keywords: boys; catullus; chapter; city; day; eyes; finger; girl; great; greek; head; house; juvenal; koritto; law; lib; life; love; martial; means; men; metro; night; passage; petronius; practice; prostitutes; public; roman; rome; slave; thou; time; vice; water; wife; women; word
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 5224
      author: Petronius Arbiter
       title: The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes
        date: None
       words: 10912
      flesch: 63
     summary: The princes of the church showered them with gifts, they threw at their feet the price of redemption from sin, paid by the faithful, and the age of Leo X was for Rome a wonderful epoch of fine arts, belles lettres, and beautiful women. But in vain did he invent new pleasures, in vain did he take part in these scenes in which groups of young men by threes and fours assumed all sorts of lascivious postures, and were at the same time active and passive; the sight of these indulgences of the sprintriae (for that is the name which was given there) did not enable him to resuscitate his vigor any more than the glamor of the throne or the servile submission of the senate served to mitigate his remorse.
    keywords: beauty; boys; century; courtesans; enjoyment; god; gods; holy; life; lord; love; man; nature; people; pleasure; priests; profession; rome; sex; time; women
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