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6/28/2025, 1:26:08 AM
>Learn Latin because I'm white
>Read "Dinner of Trimalchio" from the Satryicon, in Latin
>the story opens up with him tossing rubber bouncing balls around with boys
>he pees in a silver pot a slave carries, washes his hands with water another slave carries, and dries his hands on a boy's hair
>his favorite boy is really ugly and rides around on a chariot
>in the middle of the book Trimalchio slips away and one of the guests calls him a "chickenkeeper" (gallineus, meaning pederast)
>in the last few pages Trimalchio's wife gets pissed because he's making out with his pretty boy slave
>wife mouths off
>Trimalchio throws a goblet at her face
>tries to explain that he's only making out with the boy because he's so frugal (Trimalchio is a former slave, his background is being an accountant that inherits a fortune)
>then proceeds into a rant about how great he is, delivers his own eulogy, telling his best friend to recite it at his funeral, then he literally plays dead "fingite me mortuum" and makes his slaves and friends cry and re-enact his funeral
>the trio of hooligans (the main characters) slip out when a slave brings out a funeral shroud
>Read "Dinner of Trimalchio" from the Satryicon, in Latin
>the story opens up with him tossing rubber bouncing balls around with boys
>he pees in a silver pot a slave carries, washes his hands with water another slave carries, and dries his hands on a boy's hair
>his favorite boy is really ugly and rides around on a chariot
>in the middle of the book Trimalchio slips away and one of the guests calls him a "chickenkeeper" (gallineus, meaning pederast)
>in the last few pages Trimalchio's wife gets pissed because he's making out with his pretty boy slave
>wife mouths off
>Trimalchio throws a goblet at her face
>tries to explain that he's only making out with the boy because he's so frugal (Trimalchio is a former slave, his background is being an accountant that inherits a fortune)
>then proceeds into a rant about how great he is, delivers his own eulogy, telling his best friend to recite it at his funeral, then he literally plays dead "fingite me mortuum" and makes his slaves and friends cry and re-enact his funeral
>the trio of hooligans (the main characters) slip out when a slave brings out a funeral shroud
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