Gaius Petronius or Publius Petronius (born c. 75 BC; died after 20 BC) was the 2nd and then 4th prefect of Roman Aegyptus. He led a campaign into present-day central Sudan against the Kingdom of Kush at Meroe, whose queen Imanarenat had previously attacked Roman Egypt. Failing to acquire permanent gains, he razed the city of Napata 22 BC to the ground and retreated to the north.
| Preceded by Aelius Gallus |
Prefect of Egypt c. 25 BC-20 BC |
Succeeded by Publius Rubrius Barbarus |
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| Name | Petronius, Gaius |
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“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)