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Trimalchio
Trimalchio is a character in the 1st century AD Roman work of fiction "Satyricon" by Petronius. He plays a part only in the section titled "Cēna Trīmalchiōnis" (The Banquet of Trimalchio, often translated as "Dinner With Trimalchio"). Trimalchio is an arrogant former slave who has become quite wealthy by tactics that most would find distasteful. The name "Trimalchio" is formed from the Greek prefix τρις and the Semitic מלך (melech) in its occidental form Malchio or Malchus. The fundamental meaning of
is too much for everyone to eat. One of the magistrates present for the banquet, Quintus Brittius, secretly mouths the word "Tri-mal-chio" to Ampliatus's former master, Lucius Popidius Secundus, one of the aediles of Pompeii, to their greater amusement.
- There is a single mention of Trimalchio in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" as his showy parties and background parallel those of Gatsby: Chapter 7 begins, "It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that