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Excerpt from Petronius Cena Trimalchionis: Edited, With Introduction and Commentary The (jena Trimalchionis is fairly entitled to a place of prominence in the study of Roman life and literature. It reveals an important side Of life in the early years of our era, in all its naturalness and with perfect truthful ness, and is to that extent of the same value as the plays of Plautus or the Letters Of Cicero. The name of Petro nius has been anathema to a large number of Latin scholars, but in the Gena his puritas is no longer impu rissz'ma, and what he discloses there concerning the lan guage, life, and customs of a very influential portion of Italian society in the closing years of the Republic and at the dawn Of the Empire makes pleasant and valuable reading, especially as it supplements information gath ered from inscriptions, or from Comedy and the poets and prose writers of the period of Petronius, or from the discoveries which have been and are still being continu ally made in the excavations at Pompeii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.