(31) Trimalchio's name and [the dishes'] weight in silver was engraved on their edges. (cf 38) Trimalchio would've been an imperative programmer: he knows the

(31) Trimalchio's name and [the dishes'] weight in silver was engraved on their edges. (cf 38) Trimalchio would've been an imperative programmer: he knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing? (41) Vinus mihi in cerebrum abiit. I hadn't realised "I'm soooo drunk" is attested a few thousand years ago. (44) (complaints about inflation, and how elites don't care about it) (45) (our country is the best; we just need to keep up the blood sport) (46) Nam quicquid illi vacat, caput de tabula non tollit. Kids these days, always on their tablets... [I'm not going to bother finishing, because it seems the 1913 english translation upon which I've been relying departs from the original in places. Romans described naughty bits in greek; I wonder how the greeks did their euphemism?]