But the guy actually existed: Wikipedia:
Tacitus, Plutarch and Pliny the Elder describe Petronius as the elegantiae arbiter, "judge of elegance" in the court of the emperor Nero. He served as consul in the year AD 62. Later, he became a member of the senatorial class who devoted themselves to a life of pleasure, whose relationship to Nero was apparently akin to that of a fashion advisor....
and he may have been the author of the Satyricon,
Not only is he in QuoVadis but he is a character in Waltari's book The Roman...which I read so many years ago I don't remember reading about him. Waltari's best known book, the Egyptian, was made into a bad movie but is a good book about the life of Egypt during the reign of Ikhnaton.
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