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The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter - The Dinner of Trimalcho
The second volume of The Satyricon, by Petronius, featuring the Dinner of Trimalchio.
 More of This Feature
• Satyricon Introduction
• Satyricon Volume 1 - Adventures of Encolpius and His Companions
• Satyricon Volume 2 - The Dinner of Trimalcho
• Satyricon Volume 3 - Further Adventures of Encolpius and His Companions
• Satyricon Volume 4 - Encolpius, Giton and Eumolpus Escape By Sea
• Satyricon Volume 5 - Affairs at Crotona
• The Satyricon of Petronius - Editor's Notes
 
 Related Resources
• Menippean Satire and Petronius Satyricon
 

VOLUME 2. -- THE DINNER OF TRIMALCHIO

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND.

We Were in the midst of these delicacies when, to the sound of music, Trimalchio himself was carried in and bolstered up in a nest of small cushions, which forced a snicker from the less wary. A shaven poll protruded from a scarlet mantle, and around his neck, already muffled with heavy clothing, he had tucked a napkin having a broad purple stripe and a fringe that hung down all around. On the little finger of his left hand he wore a massive gilt ring, and on the first joint of the next finger, a smaller one which seemed to me to be of pure gold, but as a matter of fact it had iron stars soldered on all around it. And then, for fear all of his finery would not be displayed, he bared his right arm, adorned with a golden arm-band and an ivory circlet clasped with a plate of shining metal.

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