LAT 521
Fall 2023
Quiz #2 (at sight passage)
(Seneca, Ep. 56.1-2)
When I chanced upon someone (who was) lazy and content with this ordinary massage, I hear the crashing of a hand struck against shoulders, (a hand) which, according to whether it arrives flat or cupped, thus changes its sound. If in fact a scorekeeper joins in and begins to count balls, it's over. Add now a brawler and a captured thief and that guy to whom his own voice is pleasing in a bath. Add now those guys who leap into the pool with an enormous sound of stricken water [i.e. they do cannonballs!]. Besides those guys whose voices, if nothing else, are regular, consider the depilator, constantly forcing out his thin and shrill voice, so that it may be more noticed, and never being quiet, except while he's plucking arm-pits and forcing another person to shout for him.