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[gey-uhs] , (Gaius Petronius Arbiter; “Arbiter Elegantiae”), died a.d. 66?, Roman satirist.

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Petronius (pɪˈtrəʊnɪəs)

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	Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society

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"It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining."

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