handl'd

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then the bold Gito, drawing out that part of him Tryphoena most admired, clapt a bloody razor to't, and threaten'd to cut away the cause of all our misfortunes, but Tryphoena did not faintly send to prevent so cruel an act: I often offer'd at my throat too, but with as little design to kill my self as Gito to do what he threaten'd: he the more boldly handl'd his because he knew it to be the same blunt razor he had us'd before; which made Tryphoena very apprehensive of his tragic intentions.

Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter