Word: trimalchio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social commentary, your story on Gabriele Lagerwall [Oct. 25] ranks with Trimalchio's banquet...
...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...