| 单词 | Gaius Petronius |
| 例句 | Going from the sublime to the ridiculous, in the 1st century A.D. the poet Gaius Petronius Arbiter poked fun at the excesses of Roman society in a fictional work called “Satyricon.” The Art of Partying, From Socrates to Capote 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The third prefect, Gaius Petronius, cleared the neglected canals for irrigation; he also repelled an invasion of the Ethiopians and pursued them far up the Nile, finally storming the capital of Napata. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" At the same time Gaius Petronius defeated the Ethiopians under Queen Candace and secured the southern frontier of Egypt. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The first realistic novel of which any portion has been preserved to modern times is the so-called "Satyricon" of Gaius Petronius, who lived at Rome in the early part of the first century a.d. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 |
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