Vol. 9 No. 3 (1983): IX - 1983, fascicolo 3
Articoli

Un’espressione proverbiale in Petronio (67, 10)

Published 2016-09-19

Keywords

  • Petronius,
  • novel,
  • prose language

Abstract

The sentence caldum meiere et frigidum potare appears to mean something like ‘to spend much money without getting any satisfaction’.