This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 5224 | But you men, who boast idly of your wisdom, but are in reality worthless brutes, what strange disease provokes you to outrage one another unnaturally? |
| 5224 | Oh, who would dare to touch a subject handled by Diderot? |
| 5224 | Or is it that this Mirabeau was merely careless? |
| 5224 | What blind folly fills your minds, that you commit the two- fold error of avoiding what you should pursue, and pursuing what you should avoid? |
| 5224 | Who does not admire the noble independence, the conjugal love, and the matronly virtues of Agrippina, the wife of Germanicus? |
| 5224 | Who was it who first looked upon the male as female, violating him by force or villainous persuasion? |
| 5224 | Why should we not pursue those pleasures which are mutual, which cause equal enjoyment to those who receive and to those who afford them? |
| 5224 | should one love Phoedrus, remembering Lysias, whom he betrayed? |
| 5223 | ''And how can we be made thus white?'' |
| 5223 | ''Knowest thou not,''replied the elder,''the word of the Lord? |
| 5223 | And what did n''t I do to persuade him''? |
| 5223 | Are these experts right in this? |
| 5223 | Calonice:"And is it thick, too''?" |
| 5223 | Do you think that Megaera had no buttocks? |
| 5223 | For shame, lay by this envious art; Is this to act a sister''s part?" |
| 5223 | For when was this NOT done? |
| 5223 | Have you never set eyes on me before? |
| 5223 | How often has Juno said the same to the lustful Thunderer? |
| 5223 | KORITTO: Metro, where did you see that? |
| 5223 | KORITTO: So Nossis had it, did she? |
| 5223 | KORITTO: What did n''t I do, Metro dear''? |
| 5223 | KORITTO: Why do you press me so? |
| 5223 | METRO: But how did he happen to come to your house, Koritto dear? |
| 5223 | METRO: Which Kerdon? |
| 5223 | METRO: Why did n''t you buy the other one, too? |
| 5223 | My tongue ought to be cut out; honestly it should: but to get back to the question I asked you a moment ago: who stitched the dildo? |
| 5223 | Or is this but frenzy''s pleasing dream? |
| 5223 | Quoting again from the same play: Calonice:"And why do you summon us, Lysistrata dear? |
| 5223 | SOCRATES: What is it then? |
| 5223 | STREPSIADES: Of the Dactyl( finger)? |
| 5223 | What does your coyness mean? |
| 5223 | What is it all about?" |
| 5223 | What makes you laugh when you look at me? |
| 5223 | What neighborhood does not reek with filthy practices''?" |
| 5223 | When found fault with?" |
| 5223 | When was it rebuked? |
| 5223 | Where did she get it, I wonder? |
| 5223 | Why do you treat me like this?" |
| 5223 | Would you hear the result of the sale? |
| 5223 | You''ll tell me the truth wo n''t you, now? |
| 5223 | iii, 6),"Quirites, I can not bear to see Rome a Greek city, yet how small a fraction of the whole corruption is found in these dregs of Achaea? |
| 5220 | Encolpius,said he,"I beseech you, I appeal to your honest recollection, did I leave you, or did you throw me over? |
| 5220 | How many of you are there? |
| 5220 | Is this the way in which you keep your promise not to recite a single verse today? |
| 5220 | Since when have men in your outfit gone on pass in white shoes? |
| 5220 | So you threaten, do you''? |
| 5220 | Tell me,I demanded,"what are you going to do about that disease of yours? |
| 5220 | ''Is n''t there something you''d like to do?'' |
| 5220 | ''Tell me, master,''he cried,''where''s the pacer?'' |
| 5220 | And as to the other, what about him? |
| 5220 | And who condemned me to this desolation''? |
| 5220 | Did I merit such an affront''?" |
| 5220 | If not, why the axes? |
| 5220 | Or stand and freeze In icy blasts, when near a cozy fire? |
| 5220 | Then why, you demand, are you dressed so shabbily? |
| 5220 | What can you say that will justify you in yielding your love to a stranger? |
| 5220 | What fool would thirst upon a river''s brink? |
| 5220 | What has become of logic? |
| 5220 | What legion are you from? |
| 5220 | What''s the meaning of all these sneaking preparations? |
| 5220 | Where is the exquisite road to wisdom? |
| 5220 | Who even goes into a temple to make a vow, that he may achieve eloquence or bathe in the fountain of wisdom? |
| 5220 | Who goes there? |
| 5220 | Who turned up that bed there? |
| 5220 | Who''s your centurion?" |
| 5220 | of astronomy? |
| 5218 | Did Encolpius drink all the satyrion there was in the house? |
| 5218 | Is that so,Quartilla scoffed,"is she any younger than I was, when I submitted to my first man? |
| 5218 | Madame,I burst out,"is this the night- cap which you ordered served to me?" |
| 5218 | Please, mother,I wheedled,"you do n''t know where I lodge, do you?" |
| 5218 | So you thought,said she,"that you could make a fool of me, did you? |
| 5218 | What should I have done, you triple fool, when I was dying of hunger? 5218 What was it?" |
| 5218 | What''s going on here, a blanket- wedding? |
| 5218 | What''s that you say? 5218 Who is there?" |
| 5218 | Given away by my laughter, the maid clapped her hands and cried,"I put one by you, young man; did you drink so much all by yourself?" |
| 5218 | Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred,"Who knows us here? |
| 5218 | Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, Where Poverty can never win its cases? |
| 5218 | Since that, who has attained to the sublimity of Thucydides, who rivalled the fame of Hyperides? |
| 5218 | Was I not a''brother''to you in the pleasure- garden, in the same sense as that in which this boy now is in this lodging- house?" |
| 5218 | What ought we to do, and how shall we make good our claim?" |
| 5218 | What, then, is there to do? |
| 5218 | When this repartee had drawn to a close, Ascyltos exclaimed,"Do n''t I deserve a drink?" |
| 5218 | Who could rival Arthur Golding''s rendering of the Metamorphoses of Ovid, or Francis Hicke''s masterly rendering of Lucian''s True History? |
| 5218 | Who will place any credence in anything we say? |
| 5218 | Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington''s unscholarly version of that masterpiece? |
| 5218 | Why should n''t our pretty little Pannychis lose her maidenhead when the opportunity is so favorable?" |
| 5218 | Wo n''t you hold your tongue, you nocturnal assassin, who, even when you swived it bravely, never entered the lists with a decent woman in your life? |
| 5218 | she demanded;"where did you learn such tricks? |
| 5222 | But what were you up to in my absence? |
| 5222 | Come now, confess, wo n''t you,I queried,"is this lady who loves me yourself?" |
| 5222 | Do n''t you know what a serious crime you''ve committed? 5222 Suppose,"thought I,"some wily legacy hunter should dispatch an agent to Africa and catch us in our lie? |
| 5222 | Well, Mr. Squeamish,she chirped, when she had greeted me,"have you recovered your appetite?" |
| 5222 | What witches( she cried,)"have devoured your manhood? |
| 5222 | What,she exclaimed,"would you really sacrifice the only one without whom you could not live''? |
| 5222 | Where are the beans? |
| 5222 | Why ask me,I replied,"why not try me instead?" |
| 5222 | Why will our Catos with their frowning brows Condemn a work of fresh simplicity''? 5222 Why, did n''t my maid tell you that I am called Circe?" |
| 5222 | Why,she cried,"what has brought you into my cell as if you were visiting a newly made grave? |
| 5222 | You have a brother already, I know, for I did n''t disdain to ask, but what is to prevent your adopting a sister, too? 5222 ''Oh heart of stone, how canst thou lie here alone?'' 5222 ( Infuriated at this affront,)What''s the matter,"demanded she;"do my kisses offend you? |
| 5222 | Anything sluttish? |
| 5222 | Are we not accustomed to swear at every member of the human body, the belly, throat, or even the head when it aches, as it often does? |
| 5222 | But, beating her palms together,"You villain, are you so brazen that you can speak?" |
| 5222 | Did I deserve to be lifted up to heaven and then dragged down to hell by you? |
| 5222 | Did not Ulysses wrangle with his own heart? |
| 5222 | Do not the tragedians''Damn their eyes''just as if they could hear? |
| 5222 | Even though I had murdered a man? |
| 5222 | For who knows not the pleasures Venus gives? |
| 5222 | Growing tired of this nonsense at last,"See here,"said I,"could I not purchase immunity for a price, even though I had assaulted you''? |
| 5222 | Have I some natural blemish that disfigures my beauty? |
| 5222 | Him whom you love as I would have you love me?" |
| 5222 | How could cheats and swindlers live unless they threw purses or little bags clinking with money into the crowd for bait? |
| 5222 | Is my breath fetid from fasting? |
| 5222 | Is there any evil smelling perspiration in my armpits? |
| 5222 | Oh Jove, what''s come to pass that thou, thine armor cast away Art mute in heaven; and but an idle tale? |
| 5222 | Or even suppose the hireling servant, glutted with prosperity, should tip off his cronies or give the whole scheme away out of spite? |
| 5222 | Or was he content to spend the night like a chaste widow?" |
| 5222 | Or, if it''s nothing of this kind, are you afraid of Giton?" |
| 5222 | Was it right for you to slander my flourishing and vigorous years and land me in the shadows and lassitude of decrepit old age? |
| 5222 | What else can those wavy well- combed locks mean or that face, rouged and covered with cosmetics, or that languishing, wanton expression in your eyes? |
| 5222 | What filth did you tread upon at some crossroads, in the dark? |
| 5222 | What had Helen to compare with her, what has Venus? |
| 5222 | What if the same numbness should attack your hands and knees? |
| 5222 | What loveliness had Ariadne or Leda to compare with hers? |
| 5222 | Who could be lovelier than she?) |
| 5222 | Who will not in a warm bed tease his members? |
| 5222 | Why should I tell you of small things? |
| 5222 | Why that gait, so precise that not a footstep deviates from its place, unless you wish to show off your figure in order to sell your favors? |
| 5222 | said the God,''Thou joy of a thousand sweet mistresses, how, oh my slave?'' |
| 5221 | And who were the rascals who were being shaved last night by the light of the moon? |
| 5221 | But why should I keep you longer in suspense? 5221 But why should they shave themselves like suppliants?" |
| 5221 | But,demanded he,"what is this ambush? |
| 5221 | Father,I quavered,"on your word of honor, can you tell me whose ship this is, and whom she has aboard?" |
| 5221 | It is unfortunate,( said I to myself,)"that the lad has so taken our friend''s fancy, but what of it? |
| 5221 | Not a bad scheme,Eumolpus agreed,"if it could only be carried out: but who could help seeing you when you start? |
| 5221 | So someone aboard my ship cut off his hair, did he? |
| 5221 | Still, what''s to prevent our searching the ship? |
| 5221 | Well, what''s to prevent our putting on an extravaganza? |
| 5221 | What do you take me for, a beast of burden? |
| 5221 | What fury,she exclaims,"turns peace to war? |
| 5221 | What was he after in that ardent assault? |
| 5221 | Where is your evil temper now? |
| 5221 | Where is your unbridled passion? 5221 ''What good will it do you to die of hunger?'' 5221 Being tied up could be endured for one day, but suppose it might have to be for longer? 5221 But why sorrow for trifles? 5221 Can art or sane reason rouse wallowing Rome from the offal And break the voluptuous slumber in which she is sunken? 5221 Can we trim our beards after the foreign style? 5221 Can you then see how it would be possible to let off those whom a god has, himself, delivered up to punishment? 5221 Do you imagine that we, who are young and unused to hardship, could endure the filthy rags and lashings necessary to such an operation, as statues do? 5221 Embracing Giton, I wept aloud:Did we deserve this from the gods,"I cried,"to be united only in death? |
| 5221 | How can they fear my glory or see in my battles A menace? |
| 5221 | If bare, what would it mean if not proscribing ourselves?" |
| 5221 | If muffled, who would not want to lend the sick man a hand? |
| 5221 | Is not nature''s every masterpiece common to all? |
| 5221 | Oh thou lover eternally faithful to change, and Possession''s betrayer, dost own thyself crushed by the power Of Rome? |
| 5221 | Or must it be fury and war and the blood- lust of daggers?" |
| 5221 | Or to surrender an uncondemned spirit before the fates demand it? |
| 5221 | Peeved at being disturbed,"So,"he snapped,"this was the reason you wished to have us quartered in the most inaccessible spot on deck, was it? |
| 5221 | Shall love alone, then, be stolen, rather than be regarded as a prize to be won? |
| 5221 | Then again, if they sought reconciliation through a mediator, why did you do your best to conceal them while employed in their behalf? |
| 5221 | Thou, Cesar divine, why delayest thou now thine invasion? |
| 5221 | Thou, Magnus, dost not know the secret Of holding the hills of Rome? |
| 5221 | Tryphaena was fired with lust at this sight,"What was Lycas up to?" |
| 5221 | We ca n''t force our legs out into the form of a bow or walk with our ankle- bones on the ground, can we? |
| 5221 | We ca n''t harrow our foreheads with scars, can we? |
| 5221 | We ca n''t kink our hair with a curling- iron, can we? |
| 5221 | We ca n''t make our lips so hideously thick, can we? |
| 5221 | What can be more beautiful than water? |
| 5221 | What could we do then? |
| 5221 | What could you ask, or wish for, more? |
| 5221 | What evil deed Was by these hands committed? |
| 5221 | What good will it do you when I''ve informed you that Lycas of Tarentum is master of this ship and that he carries Tryphaena as an exile to Tarentum?" |
| 5221 | What if we should be becalmed? |
| 5221 | What if we were struck by a storm from the wrong quarter of the heavens? |
| 5221 | What salamander singed off your eyebrows? |
| 5221 | What should the injured parties do when the guilty run into their own punishment? |
| 5221 | What''s the use of seeking information through a third person, anyway? |
| 5221 | Who is this Hannibal who sails with us? |
| 5221 | Why die before our time? |
| 5221 | Why not shake off this womanish weakness and enjoy the blessings of light while you can? |
| 5221 | Why smash not the gates, why not level the walls of the cities, Their treasures to pillage? |
| 5221 | With bare? |
| 5221 | With muffled heads? |
| 5221 | Would you recall the dead from the reluctant fates? |
| 5221 | You poisoner, what god did you vow your hair to? |
| 5221 | You scoundrel, what have you to say for yourself? |
| 5221 | he grumbled,"or a scow for carrying stone? |
| 5221 | said Lycas, after he had expiated Tryphaena''s dream,"so that we will not be guilty of neglecting the revelations of Providence?" |
| 5221 | she asked,''or to bury yourself alive''? |
| 5221 | who courts his end By drawing sword amidst these waves? |
| 5219 | A poor man and a rich man were enemies,Agamemmon began, when:"What''s a poor man?" |
| 5219 | But why is n''t Fortunata at the table, Gaius? 5219 But,"demanded Trimalchio,"what did you have for dinner''?" |
| 5219 | Habinnas, you were there, I think, I''ll leave it to you; did n''t he say--''You took your wife out of a whore- house''? 5219 What do you think about this?" |
| 5219 | What do you think of the fellow in the freedman''s place? 5219 What should we say was the hardest calling, after literature?" |
| 5219 | What''s so funny, you curly- headed onion,he bellowed,"are the Saturnalia here, I''d like to know? |
| 5219 | What''s that,Trimalchio replied;"do n''t you know her better than that? |
| 5219 | What''s that? |
| 5219 | What''s that? |
| 5219 | When did you pay your twentieth? 5219 When were the gardens at Pompeii bought for me?" |
| 5219 | Why do you pray to me? |
| 5219 | Why has n''t one of you asked my Fortunata to dance? |
| 5219 | You have n''t had anything to eat yet, have you? |
| 5219 | You see these things, do n''t you? |
| 5219 | ''Is Ulysses no better known?'' |
| 5219 | ''Is everything in its place?'' |
| 5219 | A draggled fox is a fine sight, ai n''t it''? |
| 5219 | Ai n''t that the truth, you high- stepping hussy''? |
| 5219 | And honestly, what did that fellow ever do for us? |
| 5219 | As he had often experienced byplay of this sort he explained,"You see that fellow who is carving the meat, do n''t you? |
| 5219 | But I say, you did n''t think I''d be satisfied with any such dinner as you saw on the top of that tray? |
| 5219 | But as for Trimalchio,"What the hell''s next?" |
| 5219 | But what does it amount to? |
| 5219 | CHAPTER THE FORTY- SIXTH"Agamemnon, your looks seem to say, What''s this boresome nut trying to hand us?'' |
| 5219 | Do you see all those cushions? |
| 5219 | He has a good front, too, has n''t he? |
| 5219 | He''s worth my attention, ai n''t he? |
| 5219 | How could Glyco ever imagine that a sprig of Hermogenes''planting could turn out well? |
| 5219 | How could anyone forget to draw a hog? |
| 5219 | How could the slave go wrong when he only obeyed orders? |
| 5219 | How old would you think he was? |
| 5219 | How''s this-- what part of us am I? |
| 5219 | I took her off the auction block and made her a woman among her equals, did n''t I? |
| 5219 | I''d rather have my reputation than riches, for my part, and before I make an end of this-- who ever dunned me twice? |
| 5219 | I''m of the opinion that the first was the more eloquent, but that the last moralizes more beautifully, for what can excel these lines? |
| 5219 | India surrenders her pearls; and what mean they to thee? |
| 5219 | Is his family so damned fine- haired? |
| 5219 | Is it December now? |
| 5219 | Or the fire of the ruby? |
| 5219 | See the fellow reclining at the bottom of the end couch? |
| 5219 | So you''re laughing, are you, Fortunata? |
| 5219 | That thy wife decked with sea- spoils adorning her breast and her head On the couch of a stranger lies lifting adulterous legs? |
| 5219 | The emerald green, the glass bauble, what mean they to thee? |
| 5219 | There came a pause, presently, and"You do n''t any of you know the plot of the skit they''re putting on, do you?" |
| 5219 | Trimalchio scrutinized it closely and"What the hell,"he suddenly bawled out,"this hog hain''t been gutted, has it? |
| 5219 | Trimalchio shouted,"You''d think he''d only left out a bit of pepper and cummin, would n''t you? |
| 5219 | Was ever anyone nearer dead from fright than me? |
| 5219 | Well, it''s because the bronze worker I patronize is named Corinthus, and what''s Corinthian unless it''s what a Corinthus makes? |
| 5219 | Well, what are you gaping at now, like a billy- goat in a vetch- field?" |
| 5219 | Well, what of it? |
| 5219 | What is there left to tell? |
| 5219 | What part of us grows but always grows less? |
| 5219 | What part of us runs but never moves from its place? |
| 5219 | What t''hell do I care who laughs? |
| 5219 | What the hell''s he got to laugh at? |
| 5219 | What would you think happened then? |
| 5219 | What''s going to happen to this town, if neither gods nor men take pity on it? |
| 5219 | What''s he got to kick about''? |
| 5219 | What''s this to you, you gallows- bird, you crow''s meat? |
| 5219 | What, grunting- sow, still bawling? |
| 5219 | When the crestfallen cook stood at the table and owned up that he had forgotten to bowel him,"So you forgot, did you?" |
| 5219 | When the fellow made answer that he was from the fortieth,"Were you bought, or born upon my estates?" |
| 5219 | Who could hold a candle to me except, of course, the one and only Apelles?" |
| 5219 | Why do we have to put up with an AEdile here, who''s not worth three Caunian figs and who thinks more of an as than of our lives? |
| 5219 | You do n''t think I lost my pep, do you? |
| 5219 | You have n''t entertained us at all, have you? |
| 5219 | You''ve got more coin than we have, have you? |