Petronius

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Petronius (c. AD 27-66) was a Roman writer of the Neronian age; he was a noted satirist. He is identified with C. Petronius Arbiter, but the manuscript text of the Satyricon calls him Titus Petronius. Satyricon is his sole surviving work.

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Satyricon

Abiit ad plures
- Translation: He has joined the great majority.
- Sec. 42

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do will.
- Sec. 43

One good turn deserves another.
- Sec. 45

Litterae thesaurum est.
- Translation: Education is a treasure.
- Sec. 46

Then the Sibyl! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, 'Sibyl, what would you?' she'd answer, 'I would die' -- both of ‘em speaking Greek.'
- Sec. 48
- In the T. S. Eliot poem, "The Waste Land", this quote is written in Greek and Latin as follows: Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω. The translation generally associated with Eliot's poem is as follows: For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a cage, and when the young boys asked her, 'Sibyl, what do you want?', she replied, 'I want to die' .