Petronius Arbiter, Gaius

Japanese: ペトロニウス（英語表記）Petronius Arbiter, Gaius

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[Died] 66
Roman politician and writer. His real name was Titus Petronius Niger. He was a capable consul and governor of Bithynia, but even more so, he had a special talent for the pursuit of pleasure, and was called the "arbiter elegantiae" (judge of grace) at the court of Emperor Nero. However, he incurred the Emperor's displeasure and was ordered to commit suicide, but he is said to have died elegantly, spending his last few hours in pleasure. The details of his death are beautifully depicted in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis. Petronius' Satyricon is a kind of villain novel written in the so-called Menippian satura style, which combines prose and verse, and is said to be the first novel in Western Europe.

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[没]66
ローマの政治家，作家。本名 Titus Petronius Niger。コンスル（執政官）やビチュニア総督としても有能だったが，それ以上に快楽の追求に特殊才能をもち，皇帝ネロの宮廷の「優雅の審判官」arbiter elegantiaeと呼ばれた。しかし皇帝の不興を買って，自殺を命じられ，最後の数時間を愉悦のうちに過ごして優雅に死んだという。その死の模様はヘンリク・シェンケーウィチの『クオ・バディス』に美しく描かれている。ペトロニウスの作とされる『サチュリコン』Satyriconは，散文に韻文が交じったいわゆるメニッポス風サトゥラの形式で書かれた一種の悪者小説で，西ヨーロッパで最初の小説といわれる。

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