22
Pompeius in his Commentary on the Art of Donatus (Keil p. 167, 9): No one says this Roman citizen, but these Roman citizens, although we find the former in books. Read Petronius, and you will find this use of the nominative singular. And Petronius says Hic Quirites (this Roman citizen).
23
A Grammarian on Nouns of uncertain gender (Keil p. 578, 23): Fretum (a strait) is of the neuter gender, and its plural is freta, as Petronius says Freta Nereidum ( The straits of the Nereids ).
24
Hieronymus in his Letter to Demetriades CXXX, 19 (Vallarsius p. 995): Boys with hair curled and crimped and skins smelling like foreign musk-rats, about whom Arbiter wrote the line, To smell good always is not to smell good, The line occurs in Martial 2, 12, 4. The reference to Petronius may be due to a confusion with ch. 2,1. 1. showing how the virgin may avoid certain plagues and poisons of modesty.
25
Fulgentius Mythologiae II, 6 (p. 80, on Prometheus): Although Nicagoras. . . represents his yielding his liver to a vulture, as an allegorical picture of envy. Hence too Petronius Arbiter says: The vulture who explores our inmost liver, and drags out our heart and inmost nerves, is not the bird of whom our dainty poets talk, but those diseases of the soul, envy and wantonness.
