Petronius

• “When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read in a letter from another learned scholar from Bologna, "We have here _an entire Petronius_; I saw it with mine own eyes, and with admiration.”

  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

• “You hated the idea of Petronius and Maia growing close.”

  A Body In The Bath House

• “The description of a crowded insula, or lodging-house, in Petronius, (c. 95, 97,) perfectly tallies with the complaints of Juvenal; and we learn from legal authority, that, in the time of Augustus, (Heineccius, Hist.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “For this cause other Augustians, who had lost their houses and in them vast wealth and many works of art, called Petronius fortunate.”

  Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero

• “Latin -- not merely Leigh's mock-classic verses, but efforts of a higher humour and a purer kind, such, among many more, as the "Petronius," and the clever interlinear burlesque translations of Horace which came from the pen of H.A. Kennedy.”

  The History of "Punch"

• “Petronius," said he, "the people murmur; but if I take my lute and go to the Campus Martius, if I sing that song to them which I sang during the conflagration, dost thou not think that I will move them, as Orpheus moved wild beasts?”

  Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero

• “I set aside the brave and exemplary efforts produced by philosophy and religion; but, amongst men of little mark there have been found some, such as Petronius and”

  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete

• “My name is, quite simply, in reference to the Petronius quote, “Moderation in all things, including moderation.””

  Think Progress » IRS building in Utah evacuated, two employees taken out on stretchers after reports of white powder.

• “Neil MuirShrewsbury• I wonder whether our political leaders have studied the words of Petronius in 200BCE Editorial, 21 February: "Reorganisation is a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.”

  The Guardian: Letters: More Danish yarns

• “On the very same day I found books by Thoreau, Petronius, and Bernard Shaw, each for same unprincely price.”

  Whitehead and the modern word

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