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Petronius
[ pi-troh-nee-uhs ]
noun
- Ҳ·ܲ [gey, -, uh, s], Gaius Petronius ArbiterArbiter Elegantiae, died a.d. 66?, Roman satirist.
Petronius
/ ɪˈٰəʊɪə /
noun
- PetroniusGaius66MRomanWRITING: satirist 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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Vuillard places himself in a long tradition of satirical writing stretching as far back as Petronius’s “Satyricon.”
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For more than a decade, Pirlo served as elite European soccer’s version of Petronius, the sport’s appointed arbiter of good taste.
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The company has begun evacuating all staff from its Blind Faith and Petronius platforms and initiated shut-in procedures, a spokeswoman said in a statement.
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A movie with Fellini’s signature surrealism and episodic structure: a fever dream of imperial Rome, taken from Petronius.
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I would like to give Petronius another chance.
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