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Extravagance Bovary, Emma spends money recklessly on jewelry and clothes. [Fr. Lit.: Madame Bovary, Magill I, 539–541] dissolved in acid to symbolize luxury. [Rom. Hist.: Jobes, 348] |
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Looking back at it, I realize clearly that in my circumstances this has been criminal extravagancy. Bassus' extravagancy must have made some impression on Erasmus' mind, for he returns to it in his last major work, the manual for preachers (1535), using it there to exemplify a type of amplification: "veluti si Bassum dicas ventris onus excipere auro, vnde colligitur quanta fuerit in conuiuiis caeterisque rebus luxuries," Ecclesiastes 3, ASD, 5, 5: 60, line 176-61, line 179 (where the source reference, Martial 1. |
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