PETRONIUS ARBITER, GAIUS°
- PETRONIUS ARBITER, GAIUS°
- PETRONIUS ARBITER, GAIUS°, Roman author and a companion of
Nero in some of his pleasure ventures. Petronius links Jewish
circumcision with the pierced ears of the Arabs and with the chalked
faces of the Gauls (Satiricon, 102). In a poetic fragment he
says that the Jews revered a porcine deity (Fragmentum, 97,
in Poetae Latini Minores, ed. by Baehrens, 4 (1882), 98; =
no. 24 in Loeb edition (1913), p. 354). This may be an allusion to
Jewish abstinence from pork, or Petronius could be really ascribing a
pig-god to Jews either out of ignorance or malice. He writes also of
circumcision whereby Jews distinguish themselves from non-Jews and of
the oppressive laws of the Jewish Sabbath. Some take this to refer to
Sabbath observance, though most commentators regard it as an allusion to
the mistaken notion, common to many Roman writers, that the Jews fasted
on the Sabbath (cf. Strabo, Augustus, Trogus Pompeius, and Martial).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Reinach, Textes, 266.
(Jacob Petroff)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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