Petronius, Fragments, VIII

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Fulgentius in his Treatise on the Contents of Virgil's works (p. 156): For we have already explained above the application of the myth of Cerberus with Three Heads to quarrels and litigation in the courts. Hence too Petronius says of Euscios, “The barrister was a Cerberus of the courts.”

Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.

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