Satyricon 12 – Scene VIIb: Dinner with Trimalchio – Second Course

(Previously – Satyricon 11 – Scene VIIa: Dinner with Trimalchio – First Course)

The Pig – The pig that Trimalchio chose earlier now returns to the dining hall amid applause. It is steaming and bloated, fake but grotesque. Trimalchio feigns outrage to set up an elaborate joke on his guests. When the baked pig is cut open, other types of meat are pulled from its humid carcass for the diners. This scene comes from the novel (section 67).

Another part of the novel is also being alluded to in the fi...