Petronius: Satires and the Book of Priapeia

"...to Nero; and he broke his signet ring, so that it might not soon be used to cause danger to others. As Nero wavered, wondering how the secrets of his nights might become known, Silia was offered to him; she was a senator’s wife, not unknown to the prince and herself initiated into every form of lust, and very intimate with Petronius. She was sent into exile as if she had not kept silent about what she had seen and endured, but out of personal hatred."

Macrobius on the Dream of Scipio I 2, 8: "They soothe the ear like the comedies that Menander or his imitators provided for the stage, or stories filled with the fictional misfortunes of lovers, in which the Arbiter Petronius exerted himself greatly, or which we marvel that Apuleius sometimes played with."

John Lydus, On Magistracies I 41: "Turnus, Juvenal, and Petronius, by attacking through direct mockery, corrupted the law of satire."