Re: Not a true quote by Petronius
posted 2002 by Jason
Dead link. Anyone else have any information?
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Re: Not a true quote by Petronius · posted 2005 by Model Masters
Petronius Arbiter wrote this in 55 AD as per a copy I read while at Univac Computer (Blue Bell, PA) in 1975.
Re: Not a true quote by Petronius · posted 2005 by John M Medaglia
See http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/pe/ petronius.htm for info on Petronius, dissolute courtier of Nero and author of Satiricon including
This quotation is not by Petronius; the earliest reference to it dates only to 1970. There are references to it originating among disgruntled British occupying forces in post-1945 Germany (Petronian Society Newsletter, May 1981). The true author is unknown.
and Asteroid 3244 Petronius named after the satirist 3244 Petronius is a main belt (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid , which was discovered by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Petronius , the ancient Roman satirist (died in 66)
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