This introduction is one of the most extraordinary pieces of bombast, mixed metaphors, loose syntax, and incoherent expressions that Latin literature possesses.Another method of approach is suggested by the handwriting sheets to print Menippean satire, the best specimens of which have come down to us in the fragments of Varro, one of Cicero's contemporaries.Whichever of these two views is the correct one, the discovery of the Ninos romance fills in a gap in one theory of the origin of the realistic romance of Petronius, and with that we are here concerned.All this belongs to the early stage of paternal government.He wins handwriting sheets to print over Derkeia.In good society they talk of literature and art.They range in length from couplets to poems of three handwriting sheets to print hundred lines.The novel of Petronius has one other characteristic which is significant, if we attempt to trace the origin of this type of literature.In this way the combination of different kinds of verse in the drama, and the handwriting sheets to print prosimetrum of the Menippean satire and of Petronius, may be explained, and we see a possible line of descent from comedy and this form of satire to the Satirae.D.