# The Satyricon — Volume 03: Encolpius and His Companions

By Petronius Arbiter.

"The Satyricon — Volume 03: Encolpius and His Companions" by Petronius Arbiter is a Latin work of fiction written in the late 1st century AD. This fragment of a much longer Roman novel follows the narrator Encolpius and his companions through a series of bizarre, bawdy adventures. Their escapades include disputes over a handsome slave boy, encounters with devotees of Priapus, and an infamous dinner at the estate of Trimalchio, a wealthy freedman whose grotesque extravagance and pretentious displays expose the vulgarity of Rome's nouveau riche. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Translator: W. C. Firebaugh
- Subjects: Rome -- Fiction; Satire, Latin -- Translations into English

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