Chapter Four : CHAPTER FOUR At this crisis amazement and consternation quite broke our spirit, certain death seeming to stare us miserably in the face. [XX (Latin) ] "I beseech you, lady," I cried, "if you have any sinister design, put us out of our misery at once; we have done nothing so heinous as to deserve...
Chapter Seventeen : CHAPTER SEVENTEEN As soon as ever I could get home, I went to bed, utterly worn out with fatigue; but I was unable to sleep a wink. My various disasters kept on running through my head, and quite convinced I was the most unfortunate wretch alive, I ejaculated, "Fortune has ever been my bitterest...
Chapter Eight : CHAPTER EIGHT [XLIX (Latin) ] He was still in the middle of this nonsense when a tray supporting an enormous hog was set on the table. One and all we expressed our admiration at the expedition shown, and swore a mere ordinary fowl could not have been cooked in the time, the more so as the hog...
Chapter Eleven : CHAPTER ELEVEN [LXXIX (Latin) ] We had never a torch to guide our wandering steps, while the silent hour of midnight gave small hope of procuring light from chance wayfarers. Added to this was our own intoxication and ignorance of the locality, baffling even by daylight. After dragging our bleeding...
Chapter Seven : CHAPTER SEVEN At the end of this course Trimalchio left the table to relieve himself, and so finding ourselves free from the constraint of his overbearing presence, we began to indulge in a little friendly conversation. Accordingly Dama began first, after calling for a cup of wine. "A day! what is...
Chapter Three : CHAPTER THREE [XII (Latin) ] On the approach of night we took our way to the market-place, where we saw an abundance of goods for sale, not indeed articles of any great value, but rather such as needed the kindly veil of darkness, considering their rather shady origin. Thither we also conveyed our...
Chapter Fourteen : CHAPTER FOURTEEN [CXIII (Latin) ] This story set the sailors all laughing, while it made Tryphaena blush not a little and lay her face amorously against Giton's bosom. Lichas on the other hand was far from laughing, and shaking his head indignantly, "If the Governor of Ephesus had been a just man,"...
Chapter Five : CHAPTER FIVE The third day had now arrived, the date appointed for the free banquet at Trimalchio's; but with so many wounds as we had, we deemed it better policy to fly than to remain where we were. So we made the best of our way to our inn, and our hurts being only skin-deep after all, we lay...
Chapter Fifteen : CHAPTER FIFTEEN Eumolpus having declaimed this effusion with prodigious volubility, we eventually entered the gates of Croton. Here we baited at a small, mean inn, but started out next morning to find a lodging of greater pretensions. We soon fell in with a mob of legacy hunters, who plied us with...
Chapter Two : CHAPTER TWO Necessity constrained me to approve his advice and restrain the expression of my resentment. So, loading Giton with our scanty baggage, we quitted the city and made our way to the country house of Lycurgus, a Roman knight. Ascyltos had been a minion in former days, so he gave us...
Chapter Sixteen : CHAPTER SIXTEEN [CXXXIII (Latin) ] My declamation ended, I called Giton to me and asked him, "Tell me, darling, tell me on your honor; that night Ascyltos stole you from me, did he resort to active violence upon you, or was he content with a night of self-restraint and continence?" The lad touched...
Chapter Ten : CHAPTER TEN [LXV (Latin) ] After this display of good nature, there followed a course of delicacies, only to think of which, if you'll believe me, makes me feel ill. For instead of thrushes, a fatted hen was set before each guest and chaperoned goose-eggs which Trimalchio urged us most pressingly...
Chapter Twelve : CHAPTER TWELVE [XCI (Latin) ] Arrived at the Baths, I catch sight of Giton laden with towels and scrapers, leaning against a wall and wearing a look of melancholy embarrassment on his face. You could easily see he was an unwilling servant; and indeed, to show my eyes had not deceived me, he now...
Title Page : THE SATYRICON PETRONIUS Two thousand and ten copies of this edition have been printed, ten copies of which are for the Editors of The Panurge Press. None of these is intended for other than private circulation among adult collectors of erotica. From the Latin of PETRONIUS Translated and Introduced...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION Tacitus writes (Annals, XVI. Chapters 17 and 18-20, A.D. 66): "Within a few days, indeed, there perished in one and the same batch, Annaeus Mela, Cerialis Anicius, Rufius Crispinus and Petronius.... With regard to Caius Petronius, his character and life merit a somewhat more particular...
Chapter Thirteen : CHAPTER THIRTEEN [C (Latin) ] We chose out a retired spot on the stern-deck, and as it was not even yet daylight, Eumolpus dozed off; but neither Giton nor myself could get a single wink of sleep. I reflected with anxiety on the fact that I had made a companion of Eumolpus, a still more redoubtable...
Chapter One : THE SATYRICON CHAPTER ONE [I (Latin) ] Such a long time has passed since first I promised you the story of my adventures I am resolved to keep my word today, seeing we are happily met together to season those matters with lively conversation and tales of a merry and diverting sort. Fabricius...
Chapter Six : CHAPTER SIX [XXXV (Latin) ] Our applause was interrupted by the second course, which did not by any means come up to our expectations. Still the oddity of the thing drew the eyes of all. An immense circular tray bore the twelve signs of the zodiac displayed round the circumference, on each of which...
Chapter Nine : CHAPTER NINE [LVII (Latin) ] But Ascyltos, lost to all self-control, threw his arms up in the air, and turning the whole proceedings into ridicule, laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks. At this once of the freedmen among the guests, the same who occupied the place next above me, lost his...
