Juvenal’s fifth satire chronicles a patron intentionally causing his clients pain at one of these events. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these events. In the Satyricon, Encolpius and his young lover Giton attend one of these events featuring objects emblazoned with zodiac signs where Trimalchio tells a story about a Cappadocian slave turned into straw.
ANSWER: feasts [or banquets; or dinners or dinner parties; accept Trimalchio’s feast; prompt on party or parties]
[10h] Petronius, who depicted that feast hosted by Trimalchio in the Satyricon, performed this action in Cumae with friends reciting verse. Juvenal’s sixth satire originates the phrase “who watches the watchmen?” after suggesting that Postumus take a boy to bed or perform this action as an alternative to marriage.
ANSWER: committing suicide [accept equivalents such as killing oneself; prompt on jumping out of a window or jumping off a bridge or hanging oneself]
[10e] Juvenal’s tenth satire originated a phrase commonly used to deride politicians for entertaining constituents with this foodstuff “and circuses.”
ANSWER: bread [or panem; accept bread and circuses or panem et circenses]
<Simon Fraser, World Literature>