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Trimalchio vulgar freedman gives lavish feast for noble guests. [Rom. Lit.: Satyricon] See : Epicureanism How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the Weather Witches the witch on the right holds up a jar with a strange creature inside it and a similar image appears in a magical context in Petronius's Satyricon 48 where Trimalchio says he saw a Sibyl inside a jar -- "Yes, and I myself with my own eyes saw the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a flask" (100-01). Staged or imaginary funerals must have had general currency among the elite of Roman society for the motif occurs in Petronius's SATYRICON, where all manner of funerary elements appear at the last stages of the banquet Trimalchio puts on for his guests ([subsection] 71-78). |
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