Quote by Gnaeus Naevius

"Quasi pila in choro ludens datatim dat se et communem facit. Alii adnutat, alii adnictat, alium amat alium tenet. Alibi manus est occupata, alii pervellit pedem; anulum dat alii spectandum, a labris alium invoeat, cum alio cantat, at tamen alii suo dat digito litteras."

— Gnaeus Naevius

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: She wanders like a shuttlecock, from side to side she flutters. She makes a lover with a wink, with every word she utters. She's welcomed by the younger folk, and flirtingly she stands, then sits and rouses someone else, toes wriggling, squeezing hands. She blows a kiss, she gazes round, she turns and shows her ring, to one she tips the sign of love, with one she stops to sing.

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Gnaeus Naevius

Gnaeus Naevius (c. 270 – c. 201 BC) was a Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old Latin period. He had a notable literary career at Rome until his satiric comments delivered in comedy angered the Metellus family, one of whom was consul. After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribunes (who had the tribunician power, in essence the power of habeas corpus). After a second offense he was exiled to Tunisia, where he wrote his own epitaph and committed suicide.

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