paisythea

Updated: May 1, 2025

I am yearning for her, in sincerity I tell thee, Petronius, as that Dream who is imaged on the Mosaic of thy tepidarium yearned for Paisythea, whole days and night do I yearn." "If she is a slave, then purchase her." "She is not a slave." "What is she? A freed woman of Plautius?" "Never having been a slave, she could not be a freed woman." "Who is she?"

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