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“Num alio genere furiarum declamatores inquietantur,
qui clamant: 'haec vulnera pro libertate publica excepi; hunc oculum pro
vobis impendi: date mihi ducem, qui me ducat ad liberos meos, nam succisi
poplites membra non sustinent'? Haec ipsa tolerabilia essent, si ad eloquentiam
ituris viam facerent. Nunc et rerum tumore et sententiarum vanissimo strepitu
hoc tantum proficiunt, ut cum in forum venerint, putent se in alium orbem
terrarum delatos. Et ideo ego adulescentulos existimo in scholis stultissimos
fieri, quia nihil ex his, quae in usu habemus, aut audiunt aut vident, sed
piratas cum catenis in litore stantes, sed tyrannos edicta scribentes, quibus
imperent filiis ut patrum suorum capita praecidant, sed responsa in pestilentiam
data, ut virgines tres aut plures immolentur, sed mellitos verborum globulos et
omnia dicta factaque quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa.”
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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