So you remember Mark Antony sneaking into Curio's house through the roof? Here's the best quote I've ever read about it.
Antony compromises the integrity of the household as an architectural unit.
HELP! I can't...
Antony compromises? The integrity? Of the household? As an architectural unit?? By sneaking in through the roof? To meet with Curio??? This is so funny to me I can't. Compromises the integrity of the household as an architectural unit, huh.
Actually, I think the entire chapter that quote came from is a work of art. Look at this part.
The scenario Cicero conjures up features plot elements of romantic New Comedy, suitably blackened, with the youthful libertine (Curio Junior) and his lover (Antony) running foul of Curio Senior, who, playing the strict father familiar from the comic stage, repeatedly chucks his son’s homeboy out of the house — to no avail.
TO NO AVAIL
I'm looking at this book's table of contents and I think I have to read it. Just look at some of the chapter titles!
Family Therapy: Cicero as Counselor
Hitting 'Fast-Forward,' or: How to Pull Off a Praeteritio
Antony Adrift
Caesar's Approach to HR, or Why Antony Has What it Takes
Antony Augur, Addled and Addling
Antony Colonized a Colony!
Antony's Enrichment Activities
HELPP
This book is Cicero, Philippic 2, 44-50, 78-92, 100-119: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary by Ingo Gildenhard.