He was a political pamphleteer, a scourger of public scamps, and a pictorial muck-raker of genius.
"Promenades of an Impressionist"
James Huneker
In the first place you were technically right in saying that there is not one word in any sacred writing or in the pronouncements of the Pontiffs or the statutes of the Vestals to forbid a flogged Vestal from beating her scourger.
"The Unwilling Vestal"
Edward Lucas White