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  • Because I have noticed that on Mother Love Bone's self-titled album, there is a collage of pictures, and one of them has the word Satyricon written in pink.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • Encolpius’ pun upon the Embasicete in Satyricon, cap. iv.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion.

    The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • The movie productions Ms. Mark has recorded go from 1969's "Satyricon" to "Australia" in 2007.

    The Writer Behind the Lens 2009

  • Staley-Wise Gallery Mary Ellen Mark Federico Fellini surveys a set for the following day, "Satyricon"

    New York Photography Shows 2009

  • "Satyricon" once had been, yet in his inmost heart he desired to be something more than a mere _arbiter elegantiarum_, to be consulted on the wearing of a jewel, or the knotting of a necktie, or the conduct of

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877

  • The _carpi diem_ of the classic sensualists, the morality of the 'Satyricon' or the

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • His "Satyricon" is not intended to be a satire, but an imitation of one of those old Greek comedies which treated of the doings of Satyrs and grotesque country deities.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • They are no more the whole image of the country than the "Satyricon" was the whole image of Rome, but what their author has wished to paint, he has painted to the life and with a brush that is graphic in the extreme.

    Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

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