capiton

Updated: June 6, 2025

But Petronius, who had for him a real weakness, and who wished to soften his pain, began to meditate how he might do so. "Look at this grace! for whom some days since Fonteius Capiton the younger offered three wonderful boys from Clazomene. A more beautiful figure than hers even Skopas himself has not chiselled.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero

But on the way to the cubiculum he remembered it is unknown why that he had noticed wrinkles, that day, in the corners of Chrysothemis's eyes. He thought, also, that her beauty was more celebrated in Rome than it deserved; and that Fonteius Capiton, who had offered him three boys from Clazomene for Eunice, wanted to buy her too cheaply.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero