# The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes

By Petronius Arbiter.

"The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes" by Petronius Arbiter is a scholarly supplement to a Latin work written in the late 1st century AD. This volume provides editorial annotations for a picaresque satire following the narrator Encolpius and his companions through a series of bizarre, often erotic adventures in ancient Rome. The notes illuminate the text's mixture of prose and verse, its social commentary on lower-class Roman life, and its most famous sequence: the extravagant dinner party hosted by the vulgar freedman Trimalchio. (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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