Petronius Arbiter

Busts of Horace, Ovid, Anacreon, Tibullus, and Petronius Arbiter, adorned the recesses, and stands of flowers, placed in Etruscan vases, breathed the most delicious perfume.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

These unfortunate victims were Seneca, Petronius Arbiter, and Lucan.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

So, amidst that classic company, smiling or frowning upon him from the oaken shelves, where Petronius Arbiter, exquisite, rubbed shoulders with Balzac, plebeian; where Omar Khayyam leaned confidentially toward

The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

And for those who are more logically sceptical -- who question the veracity of the Bible and are dubious as to its authenticity -- there are the chronicles of Herodotus, Petronius Arbiter, Baronius, Dôle,

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

What wonder if, at this time, my earlier dreams and ambitions faded from my ken; what wonder that Petronius Arbiter, and the jolly Sieur de Brantome lay neglected in my dusty knapsack.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

_Satyricon_ of Petronius Arbiter, Its author is generally identified with Titus Petronius, the friend and victim of Nero.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

“Trimalchio’s Dinner, ” by Petronius Arbiter, translated from the original Latin with an introduction and bibliographical appendix.

Introduction 1907

Nero, the fragments of a novel by Petronius Arbiter, one of the Emperor's intimate circle in the excesses of his later years.

Latin Literature 1902

Its alternation of pathos and bathos -- of the boldest poetry (the diction of Job) with the baldest prose (the Egyptian of to-day) and finally, its contrast of the highest and purest morality with the orgies of Apuleius and Petronius Arbiter, take away the reader's breath.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

Acquaintance, on the other hand, is implied or avowed, on Milton's part, with some of the most notoriously ribald writers that the world had produced: with Petronius Arbiter, and him of

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864