Trimalchio's Dinner
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217064453
Paperback|9780217064453
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... Trimalchio's Dinner THE day at last arrived with its promise of a free dinner for us; but we were so much done up that we really thought of getting out of the whole affair. While we were thinking the matter over, however, one of Agamemnon's servants came in and said: "Don't you really know at whose house the dinner is to be? Why, it's at Trimalchio's, and a most sumptuous sort of person he is. He keeps a time-piece in his diningroom and has a man blow on a horn every hour of the day, so as to remind him just how much of life he's losing." At this we forgot all our troubles and started to dress for dinner, telling our young friend Giton to follow us to the baths in the character of our attendant, --a part which he very willingly assumed. And so, after dressing, we took a preliminary stroll, and presently espied a bald-headed old man, in reddish clothes, playing tennis in the midst of a number of long-haired slaves. It was not the slaves, however, that attracted us so much as the old gentleman himself who, with slippers on his feet, was serving a green ball. As soon as a ball fell to the ground he refused to touch it again, but took a fresh one from a bag which a slave by his side held out to the players. While I was watching his luxurious manner of playing, up comes Menelaus and says he: "This is the gentleman at whose house you are going to dine; and, in fact, this game is really a preliminary to the dinner." Before long, we entered the public bath and, after remaining a while in the hot water, we changed to cold. Trimalchio, after being carefully perfumed, was rubbed down, though not with towels, but with mantles made of the very softest wool; while three attendants who stood there drank Falernian wine, of which they spilled a good deal in their wrangling; ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217064453 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217064450 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 66 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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