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The language of the freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchonis
by Boyce, Bret
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The language of the freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis
by Boyce, Bret
fromMnemosyne
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Type: Book
Realistic representation of the speech of the lower classes in ancient literature is largely confined to the comic genres, and Petronius' realism in this area is more thorough-going than that of any other ancient author. A vast scholarly literature has grown up around the questi…