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"The Latin in Suetonius's biography is not entirely clear, so we cannot be sure whether these senators-turned-waiters 'had napkins in their hands' or were 'wearing their tunics hitched up' in an embarrassingly revealing fashion. But, either way, this was more than the humiliation of the elite. By reversing the roles, it confounded what was supposed to be the social order of the banquet."