 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Italy - 1898 - 692 pages
...• "He built," said Tacitus, " in the lake of Agrippa, a raft, which supported the banquet, it being moved to and fro, by other vessels drawing it after...them. The vessels were striped with gold and ivory and were rowed by bands of pat/tics — beautiful boys devoted to the most infamous pur poses — who were... | |
 | Women - 1908 - 404 pages
...reached. Tacitus describes the feast given by Tigellinus, for which "he built, in the lake of Agrippa, a raft which supported the banquet, which was moved...to and fro by other vessels drawing it after them. He had procured fowl and venison from remote regions, and fish from far-off seas. Upon the margin of... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - 1919 - 630 pages
...to repeat the instances of similar prodigality. For this purpose, he built, in the lake of Agrippa, a raft which supported the banquet, which was moved...with gold and ivory, and rowed by bands of pathics (lascivious men and •women) who were ranged according to their age, and accomplishments in the science... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - Phallicism - 1919 - 774 pages
...to repeat the instances of similar prodigality. For this purpose, he built, in the lake of Agrippa, a raft which supported the banquet, which was moved...with gold and ivory, and rowed by bands of pathics (lascivious men and women) who were ranged according to their age, and accomplishments in the science... | |
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... who were ranged according to their age, and accomplishments in the science of debauchery. He had procured fowl and venison from remote regions, with sea-fish even from the ocean; upon the margin of the lake were erected brothels, filled with ladies... 