Gaius Petronius Arbiter – Satyricon

Introduction

In the Cena, as in the entire Satirae, Encolpius/ is the narrator, Ascyltus and Giton are his comrades. The rhetorician Agamemnon is with them ; but after the Cena his place is taken by the poet, Eumolpus.

This section of the Satyricon, regarded by classicists such as Conte and Rankin as emblematic of Menippean satire, takes place a day or two after the beginning of the extant story. Encolpius and companions are invited, along with Agamemnon, to a dinner at the estate of Trimalchio, a freedman of enormous wealth, who entertains his guests with ostentatious and grotesque extravagance.

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Cena Trimalchionis

nos interim vestiti errare coepimus, immo iocari magis et circulis ludentium accedere, cum subito videmus senem calvum, tunica vestitum russea, inter pueros capillatos ludentem pila.
nec tam pueri nos, quamquam erat operae pretium, ad spectaculum duxerant, quam ipse pater familiae, qui soleatus pila prasina exercebatur. nec amplius eam repetebat, quae terram contigerat, sed follem plenum habebat servus sufficiebatque ludentibus.
notavimus etiam res novas. nam duo spadones in diversa parte circuli stabant, quorum alter matellam tenebat argenteam, alter numerabat pilas, non quidem eas, quae inter manus lusu expellente vibrabant, sed eas, quae in terram decidebant.