This consideration emboldens me to set down some extracts in the following pages from the body of the edict Extracts from Diocletian's List of Maximum Prices I In the tables given here the Latin and Greek names of the articles listed have been turned into English.Some of these situations suggest excellent dramatic possibilities, conditions of life, for instance, where suicide seemed justifiable, misadventures with pirates, or a turn of affairs which threatened a long length hair cut woman's virtue.Its philosophy of life was No man's honesty and no woman's virtue are unassailable.We are puzzled not so much by the utter absence of anything in the way of prose fiction long length hair cut before the time of Petronius as by the difficulty of establishing any satisfactory logical connection between these pieces of literature and the romance of Petronius.Why isn't it natural for Trimalchio to turn the conversation into the same channels, even if he does make Hannibal take Troy and does confuse the epic heroes and some late champions of the gladiatorial ring? In other words, much of that which is satirical in Petronius is so only because we are setting up in our minds a comparison between the doings of his rich freedmen and the requirements of good taste and moderation.The point was made after the text of this find had been published that the large part taken in the long length hair cut tale by the carefully balanced arguments indicated that the story grew out of exercises in argumentation in the rhetorical schools.It would be a fascinating and instructive record.The elder Seneca has preserved for us in his Controversiae specimens of the long length hair cut themes which were set for students in these schools.The mime gives us still more numerous points of contact with the work of Petronius than comedy does.By the fifth and sixth centuries, a mlange of verse or a combination of prose and verse is very common, as one can long length hair cut see in the writings of Martianus Capella, Sidonius Apollinaris, Ennodius, and Boethius.It is our pleasure (also) that if any man shall have boldly come into conflict with this formal statute, he shall put his life in peril.