Book Meme

[sjester]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.


"Now, when another man, Tarquin the Proud, son of King Tarquin, was greatly taken with love for this noble Lucretia, he did not dare to tell her because of the great chastity he saw in her, and, despairing of achieving his goal with presents or entreaties, he considered how he could have her through ruse."

Comments

[paracelsus626.livejournal.com]

Is that Livy?

[sjester.livejournal.com]

No, it's Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies. The section it's from is called "Refuting those men who claim women want to be raped, rectitude gives gives several examples, and first of all, Lucretia." Some things never change, do they?

I think my Livy's in the garage. I do have some on my shelf, in an anthology in the original Latin.