The Jew may worship his pig-god and clamour in the ears of high heaven, but unless he also cuts back his foreskin with the knife, he shall go forth from the holy city cast forth from the people, and transgress the sabbath by breaking the law of fasting.
Arbiter, Gaius Petronius, Poem 24.
(Arbiter, Gaius Petronius and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Petronius; Seneca - Apocolocyntosis, tr. Michael Heseltine and William Henry Denham Rouse, London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925, p. 357.)
(Arbiter, Gaius Petronius and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Petronius; Seneca - Apocolocyntosis, tr. Michael Heseltine and William Henry Denham Rouse, London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925, p. 357.)
Iudaeus licet et porcinum numen adoret
et caeli summas advocet auriculas,
ni tamen et ferro succiderit inguinis oram
et nisi nodatum solverit arte caput,
exemptus populo sacra1 migrabit ab urbe
et non ieiuna sabbata lege premet.
Arbiter, Gaius Petronius, Poem 24 (97 P.L.M.).
(Arbiter, Gaius Petronius and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Petronius; Seneca - Apocolocyntosis, tr. Michael Heseltine and William Henry Denham Rouse, London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925, p. 356.)
(Arbiter, Gaius Petronius and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Petronius; Seneca - Apocolocyntosis, tr. Michael Heseltine and William Henry Denham Rouse, London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925, p. 356.)
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