While he was speaking, four dancers ran in to the time of the music, and removed the upper part of the tray.

Beneath, on what seemed to be another tray, we caught sight of stuffed capons and sows' bellies, and in the middle, a hare equipped with wings to resemble Pegasus.

At the corners of the tray we also noted four figures of Marsyas and from their bladders spouted a highly spiced sauce upon fish which were swimming about as if in a tide-race.

All of us echoed the applause which was started by the servants, and fell to upon these exquisite delicacies, with a laugh.

"Carver," cried Trimalchio, no less delighted with the artifice practised upon us, and the carver appeared immediately.