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Definition of Petronius
1. Noun. Roman satirist (died in 66).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petronius
Literary usage of Petronius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Petronius ARBITER (FIRST CENTURY AD: DIED 66) BY HARRIET WATERS PRESTON JN THE
solemn last book of the fragmentary Annals of Tacitus, where the historian is ..."
2. Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897)
"After a while Petronius said: Eunice looked in his eyes with fear. ... Petronius
suddenly changed the conversation and asked: "Tell me, are there any ..."
3. Society and Politics in Ancient Rome: Essays and Sketches by Frank Frost Abbott (1909)
"But the important position which Petronius holds as the creator of a new genre
of literature may properly justify the imprudence. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Eucherius writes that the holy Bishop Petronius was then renowned in Italy ...
From Gennadius we receive more detailed information: Petronius belonged to a ..."
5. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Among the Latin writers no one has equaled Petronius, it seems to me, in the
portrayal ... When Petronius gives us an account of the house or the dress of ..."
6. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1882)
"This, though very plausible, does not seem to me certain : ornat would give a
fair sense and would be not unlike the condensed style of Petronius, ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Eucherius writes that the holy Bishop Petronius was then renowned in Italy ...
From Gennadius we receive more detailed information: Petronius belonged to a ..."
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