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Petronius
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A Roman satirist and accomplished voluptuary at the court of Nero, and the director-in-chief of the imperial pleasures; accused of treason, and dreading death at the hands of the emperor his master, he opened his veins, and by bandaging them bled slowly to death, showing the while the same frivolity as throughout his life; he left behind him a work, extant now only in fragments, but enough to expose the abyss of profligacy in which the Roman world was then sunk at that crisis of its fate; d . 63.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Petronius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/petronius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Petronius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/petronius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
