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While we were engaged with these delicacies,
Trimalchio was conducted in to the sound of music, propped on the tiniest of
pillows. A laugh escaped the unwary. His head was shaven and peered out of a scarlet
cloak, and over the heavy clothes on his neck he had put on a[p. 49] napkin
with a broad stripe and fringes hanging from it all round. On the little finger of
his left hand he had an enormous gilt ring, and on the top joint of the next finger
a smaller ring which appeared to me to be entirely gold, but was really set all
round with iron cut out in little stars. Not content with this display of wealth, he
bared his right arm, where a golden bracelet shone, and an ivory bangle clasped with
a plate of bright metal.
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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