"Et ideo ego adulescentulos existimo in scholis stultissimos fieri, quia nihil ex his, quae in usu habemus."
— Petronius

January 1, 1970

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Sec. 1, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth", The Satyricon of Petronius (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902)