An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.

Juvenal prepares to sacrifice a lamb to Juno, a similar sacrifice to Minerva, and a calf to Jupiter as he and his witness Corvinus look at a votive painting of the shipwreck from which Catullus (not the poet of that name) had escaped. Left, statues of Minerva, Jupiter and Juno, with Ceres above. The votive painting shows Catullus and his crew throwing overboard his cargo of precious goods in order to lighten the load as their ship takes in water