Note 536 — Chapter II · PETRONIUS: NOVELIST AND POET
Reading edition
Text: ed. pr. (before recovery of Cena Trimalchionis), Petronii arbitri satyrici fragmenta, w. Scriptores Panegyrici Lat., etc., Milan, circ. 1482; Fragmentum Traguriense (= Cena Trim.), Frambotti, Padua, 1664; Burman, Petr. Satyr. Quae Supersunt (copiously annotated), Utr., 1709, and Amster., 1743; Bücheler, ed. maior, Berl., 1862; ed. min., 4th ed., 1904, 6th revised by Heraeus, Berl., 1922; Latin w. earliest Eng. trans. of 1694; Gaselee (illustns.), Lond., 1910; Latin w. Eng. tr., Heseltine (Loeb), Lond., 1913; Mitchell, Lond., 1922; w. French tr., Ernout, Par., 1922; Cena Trim. (Germ. tr. and notes), Friedländer, Leipzig, 1891; w. Eng. tr. and notes, Lowe, Camb., 1905; Ryan, Lond., 1905; w. Seneca’s Apocol. and Pompeian inscrns., Sedgwick, Oxf., 1925; Bellum Ciuile (from Satyr.) w. Eng. tr. and notes, Baldwin, New York, 1911. For Poems ascribed to Petronius, see Bährens’s P.L.M., vol. iv., and Bücheler’s ed. minor. The 1708 Eng. trans. was privately reprinted, Lond., 1899.
Other wks.: Beck, The Age of Petronius, Camb., U.S.A., 1856; and The MSS. of the Satyricon ... described and collated, Camb., U.S.A., 1863; Pétrequin, Nouvelles Recherches hist. et crit. sur Pétrone, Paris and Lyon, 1869; Boissier, Un roman de moeurs sous Néron in “L’opposition sous les Césars,” Par., 1875; Émile Thomas, L’Envers de la société romaine d’après Pétrone, Par., 1892; Collignon, Étude sur Pétrone, Par., 1892; and Pétrone au moyen âge, etc., 1893; Paul Thomas, L’âge et l’auteur du Satyricon, Gand, 1905; F. F. Abbott, Origin of Realistic Romance among Romans in “The Common People of Anct. Rome” (orig. in Class. Phil.), Lond., 1912, and Petronius: A Study in Ancient Realism in “Society and Politics in Anct. Rome,” Lond., 1914; Mendell, P. and the Greek Romance in Class. Phil., XII. 2, 1917.
On Language: Ludwig, De Petronii sermone plebeio, Marb., 1869; Guericke, De linguae vulgaris reliquiis apud Petron. et in inscript. parietariis Pompeianis, Gumbinn., 1875; Cesareo, De Petronii sermone, Rome, 1887 (esp. on Neapolitan elements); Heraeus, Die Sprache des Petron. u. die Glossen, Leipz., 1899; and Cena Trim. nebst ausgewählt. Pompeian. Wandinschriften (“Sammlung vulgärlateinischer Texte”), Heidelb., 1909; cf. Schuchardt, Der Vocalismus des Vulgärlateins, 1866-1868; Cooper, Word-Formation in Roman Sermo Plebeius, 1895.