The day after Saturnalia:
These wonderful women deserve some sympathy and understanding of their plight.
Far left:
Agnes, the housekeeper, older than the others. She, trying to impress the younger male slaves, danced on the dining table and stepped on the mistress's fine serving dishes. Now she wobbles and twists on her dancing feet.
Far right:
Sylvia, the laundress, stood up and sang one of the songs the washerwomen sing down at the river, in which they speculate on where the stains on the family's clothes must have come from. Now she lifts herself to take a breath and cry out a melody of moans.
Second from right:
Maura, the kitchen assistant, has always aroused suspicion because of the her adherence to some Eastern cult. During the search for a missing silver spoon (later found in the refuse pile) a stack of handwritten spells was found in her quarters. No one could read them but there were drawings that seemed to show the master and mistress under a curse.
Second from left:
Xanthe is not even from this household. She is the servant of one of the honored guests. When the other offenders were detained and condemned he was so excited that he insisted on adding his slave to the weeping, protesting gaggle of girls. She cried out some accusations about "his baby", but no one paid much attention. Now she looks with sympathetic horror as Carina's feet are nailed the same way as her own, knowing the awful piercing agony that only seems to grow after the initial jolt.
Centerpiece:
Here we see Carina, whom the master surreptitiously takes to his bed whenever the mistress is away for a night, or even when she is just unwell and confined to her own boudoir. Carina drank too quickly and got tipsy before eveyone else. She performed a seductive dance which culminated in her unwinding her strophum and, just as the music stopped, loudly proclaiming her breasts to be the best in the household while shimmying them in the mistress's face. Now those those magnificent mammaries bounce and sway again as her chest heaves with her shrieks and groans.