Oenothea tears open the breast of the goose, and uses its liver to foretell Encolpius’s future (137). Encolpius and companions are invited by one of Agamemnon’s slaves, to a dinner at the estate of Trimalchio, a freedman of enormous wealth, who entertains his guests with ostentatious and grotesque extravagance. Proselenos and the priestess Oenothea arrive. He warns Eumolpus that, because the wealth he claims to have has not appeared, the patience of the legacy-hunters is running out. After talking about the decay of art and the inferiority of the painters and writers of the age to the old masters (88), Eumolpus illustrates a picture of the capture of Troy by some verses on that theme (89). An orgy ensues and the sequence ends with Encolpius and Quartilla exchanging kisses while they spy through a keyhole at Giton having sex with a seven-year-old virgin girl; and finally sleeping together (26).
