Taboo / A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with / Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

The text frames a mock-scholarly edition of a Dirghic legend, pairing a short memoir, prolegomena, and notes with a mythic narrative. It follows Horvendile through episodes in which encounters with fate, entrenched customs, and a provocation involving a garbage-man and forks spark legal debates, public babbling, and street opinion. Through concise episodic scenes and ironical narration it probes how law, ritual taboo, and communal gossip shape judgment and consequence. The added paratext treats the tale with learned pastiche, inviting readers to read folklore and social satire together.