Petronius
1. Petronius Sabinus, is said to have lived in the reign of Tarquinius Superbus, and to have obtained from M. Tullius or M. Atilius, as Dionysius calls him, the Sibylline books in order to take a copy of them. (V. Max. 1.1.13; Dionys. A. R. 4.62.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.