You hated the idea of Petronius and Maia growing close.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

For this cause other Augustians, who had lost their houses and in them vast wealth and many works of art, called Petronius fortunate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

Apocolocyntosis, in F. Bücheler's Petronius (text).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Sat.Menipp. (text in F. Bücheler's Petronius), Berl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Petronius, Martial, and the thirteenth book of Athenaeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

Petronius has described the literary farce of the schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference

SERWER: Yes, the towers, the Petronius (ph) Towers, that's right.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2004] Reference

"I have broken my leg," roars Petronius, as if I cared for his leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

Arbiter's (Petronius) Works, translated into English, by Mr Addison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.] Reference

Petronius has given us a correct account of provincial life in South.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Petronius would fain defend himself by declaring that it is morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

This inscription was composed by a voluptuary of the school of Petronius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

Petronius has given a lively description of the rhetoricians of his time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference

"Coruna nasci" is said by Petronius, in a general sense, of one in great distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850] Reference

Proust as of his fore-runner Petronius, people will keep the things they like best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference

You're lucky Petronius didn't seduce your best clients and embezzle all your funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

Fond as he must have been of oysters, there is no evidence that Petronius ever visited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference

Petronius, that it may be inferred that it was of Italian rather than barbaric extraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

Petronius was first issued in 1629 and re-issued in 1643 with a copper plate of the Editor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

Petronius must be credited with the great merit of having introduced realism into the novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

The blessed John thus entertained Petronius and his company for three days, till the hour of None.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Another, I was more sorry to hear, could have been my old pal Petronius, but he too was sent away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

“And Petronius says you keep being sent urgent messages from the Palatine Bureau of Beaks —”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

The usage must have continued in spoken Latin, for it is found at Vitruvius VII 5 6 and Petronius 62 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

The passage in Petronius (chap. viii) and that in Juvenal (Sat. vi, 125) are not to be taken literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

The word is common enough in prose, and formed part of the spoken language, for it is found in reported speech at Petronius 45 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

I recalled a supper of Petronius, where the lights went out around the drunken masters, and the slaves entered and stole the silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The style of the Latin so closely resembles the original of Petronius that it is impossible to believe that the fragment was forged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference

Petronius, in the greater portion of his work, is an ancient; but one exception there is, and it is as brilliant as it is important.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference