Foedi Res In Latina Lingua

Should your title say "foedae?"

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XLIII Truly when he succeeded to Capri, there was thought a drawing room, a seat of secret lusts, in which flocks of girls and catamites were to be conquered from all sides, and masters of sexual monstrosities who were called spintrias, waere defied in turn before Tiberius himself, having been joined in triple series to excited the passions with fading sights. The rooms were adorned often adorned with tablets having been deposited, and art of the most lascivious pictures and statues, and he lined up the books of the Elephant, in order that an example in the published works could profit an unprepared scene. In the gardens also in the woods, here he created Veneral places and through dens and rock caves he created places for defiling, from both of which sex was had of boys and girls in puberty, as Pan and nymphs, from which, and now openly, by the common name of the island the abusers call it “The place of goats”. XLIV Still less and so even more infamous he lusted, hardly is it that I refer to it, or to hear it, much less could I believe it to be right, as if boys of first tenderness, which he called “Little fish”, would be istituted, that they, swimming, should engage him with women between himself and that they, nibbling, should play slowly with their language and bites; And so also stronger infants, nevertheless not yet having been driven from the milk, he would move to his penis as if a nipple, indeed rather more prone to this kind of lasciviousness either by age or by nature. For this reason also a picture was prepared, in which Atlanta was gratifying Meleager with her mouth, which was read to him under a condition, that if he would not be offended by it that he would offer on account of it, one million sesterii, and in no way did he prefer this, but hung it in his own room. It is also brought that once in a scrifice, he, having been captured by the face of a sharp minister, he was unable to restrain from advancing, not yet had the divine matter nearly been finished in that same place when suddenly he defiled him, having led him away, and the same of his brother, who was the piper; and so soon both, because they both endured the shame mutually, had their legs broken.

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