Capitolo 81
the city of Croton and you/he/she is considering that their equipment they will adopt as
way of living without working. A happy idea finally happens to Eumolpus and him
it says: "Because we don't build a mime?" and the mime is played, with
Eumolpus as a rich man fabulously to the point of death and the others as
his/her companions. The role ago a great hit and the whole vagrant in the
play of society their false parts in their daily life to Croton with this way
ability that the legacy-hunters of the place load them with attentions and
bathe them with present. This whole episode, in fact, can be thought of
as a throw of mime in the narrative form, and the same conception can be
applied with great acceptability to the whole history of Encolpius.
We am attaching so far the question with which we pertain to
from the side of the subject-matter and tone of the history of Petronius.
Another method of approach is suggested by the Menippean satire,[87] the
best champions of what you/he/she has come down to us in the fragments of I will Be worth,
one of the contemporaries of Cicero. These satires are a _olla podrida_,
dealing with all the son-in-laws of subjects in a satirical way, sometimes envoy in
the form of dialogue and it threw in a _melange_ of prose and verse. It is this
last characteristic that is of special interest to us in this connection,
because in the prose of the verses of Petronius you/he/she is freely used. Sometimes, as us
you/he/she has observed above, they forms an integral part of the account, and
again they illustrates only or they expands above a touched point in the prose. If
is not apart from our immediate purpose it would be interesting to
follows the history of this prose-poetic form from the duration of Petronius
on. Later he doesn't seem to be used a lot up to that the third one
and fourth centuries of ours it was. However, Martial in the first century
sets before a prologue of prose to five books of his/her Epigrams and one of these
thin of prologues with a poem of four lines. The many books of the