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And in a letter to Melesippus, Diogenes of Sinope tells us that he got a beating from the drunken sons of the Athenians; but he adds that it was a matter of no importance. And Seneca devotes the last few chapters of his De Constantia to a lengthy discussion on insult contumelia; in order to show that a wise man will take no notice of it.
Equidem minime miror, si quando es in privatos dicatior, cum in ipsos principes tam facile inveharis, et tamen nullius injuria, aut vitae contumelia facit, ut tam sis promptus, aut copiosus in eorum objurgationem. Novi nonnullos qui abs te excipi deberent ab reliquorum caterva viri docti, egregii, omnique laude et commendatione dignissimi.
A slave boy assigned to that duty read aloud the names of the souvenirs: "Silver s ham," a ham was brought in with some silver vinegar cruets on top of it; "cervical" something soft for the neck a piece of the cervix neck of a sheep was brought in; "serisapia" after wit "and contumelia" insult we were given must wafers and an apple-melon and a phallus contus ; "porri" leeks "and persica," he picked up a whip and a knife; "passeres" sparrows" and a fly trap," the answer was raisins uva passa and Attic honey; "cenatoria" a dinner toga "and forensia" business dress he handed out a piece of meat suggestive of dinner and a note-book suggestive of business ; "canale" chased by a dog "and pedale" pertaining to the foot , a hare and a slipper were brought out; "lamphrey" murena "and a letter," he held up a mouse mus and a frog rana tied together, and a bundle of beet beta the Greek letter beta . We laughed long and loud, there were a thousand of these jokes, more or less, which have now escaped my memory.
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