Petronius Satyrica (without Cena)

papavere

poppy-seed

pace vestra

with your permission/by your leave

enervaretur

languishes/is weakened

umbraticus doctor

private tutor

turgida

bloated, swollen

ventosus

inflated, bombastic (windy)

enormis

shapeless, massive

regula

tradition, pattern, model

obmutuit

struck dumb

compendiariam

shortcut

non publici saporis

of an uncommon flavour

hamis

hook

escam

bait

irrigarentur

nourished, steeped, refreshed with

perperam

falsely, in error

schedium

extemporaneous poem, spontaneous composition

calorem

wit (of his mind)

histrionis rictus

the grimaces/expressions of an actor

redemptus

bought

Socratico grege

Socratic school

Romana manus

Roman band of writers

subducta foro

led down from the forum

det pagina cursum

let the page take its course

distincta

strains, clear sounds

minetur

let him proudly pour out

sententias

here - epigrams, aphorisms

infamant

denounce

cursim

hurriedly

stabulum

lodgings

holus

vegetables

urbanus

cultivated, elegant, polished, witty, affable

centonem

curtain

titulos

placards

execratus

I cursed

prolato peculio

offered some cash

satyrion

aphrodisiac drink

molestum contempsimus

we defied the man assailing us

crepidine semitae

on the kerb of an alleyway

in conductum

into our lodgings

maiore nisu

with greater strength, exertion

muliebris patientiae

of womanly submissiveness

viridario

garden

deversorio

lodgings

privatis quaestibus

with our own earnings

nos rumoribus different

spread scandal about us

tardum est differe

it is wearisome to wait for

amoliri

to remove

artissimis

very close

votis usque ad invidiam felicibus

happiness prayed for that might become envied

claustris

bars

lorum de pera

the strap from his bag

sic dividere nolito

don't make this kind of bargain

male ambulantem

shaky (reputation)

pallium

cloak

laciniam

edge

concutere

shake (here to aggressively tout)

tunicam in solitudine

the tunic Encolpius and Ascyltos had lost

laciniam

Here - the tunic on the countryman's shoulders

suturae

seam

mendici

beggar

fastidiose

condescendingly, scornfully

Cynica pera

the wallet of a Cynic

traducunt tempora

mock the times

publica merces

public auction (re. the courts)

dipondium

sixpence

pretium maioris compendii leviorem facere iacturam

to incur a slighter loss for a greater gain

nullo genere

in now way, in no sense

cociones

dealers

de more

of course

pannuciam

ragged thing

centonibus

patchwork, patching-up

nocturni

nightwatchmen

importune

inconveniently

calvus

bald

tuberosissimae frontis

with a warty forehead

ad constitutum

at the appointed trial/case

strangularentur

choked off

exhibendum

to be displayed in court

acumen

shrewdness

sera

bolt of the door

cryptam

grotto, cavern, vault

inter se constrictis

wrung together

ambitiosus

fawning

mediusfidius

by Zeus

tertianae

tertian fever

monstrata subtilitate

by a clever method revealed to me

non tam valde laboro

i am not so deeply concerned

sacello

shrine

spissius

rather thickly, densely

legem donare

to impose the law on

nectit

weaves together

comitatus

the accompanying people

praecincti certe altius

certainly with clothes belted higher than theirs

paria

the pairings

lodiculam

blanket

inguina

groin, genitalia

sollicitavit

molested (here with inguina)

institas

flounces of a lady's tunic

latera commovit

she shook her sides

pungebat

prick, stick