Download or read book The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis written by Bret Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study of the representation of the speech of the lower classes in Petronius' Satyrica contains a thorough review of scholarship on the subject, a detailed examination of phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic features, and an exploration of how the different freedmen are characterized through their language.