Re: Petronius

Subject: Re: Petronius
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:22:17 -0700

At 08:09 AM 9/17/97 -0500, Beth Friedman wrote:

>This is an urban legend. As far as I can tell (and I did a reasonable
>amount of research), Gaius Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) never said
>any such thing.
>
>The original source appears to be the book UP THE ORGANIZATION. I
>don't know if the author was actually misled, or if he made it up out
>of whole cloth.
>
Dead on. My copy of his revised version entitled FURTHER UP THE ORGANIZATION
uses the quote and attribution on page 192. Is it a phony? Consider the
epigraph to the book: "And God created the Organization and gave It dominion
over man. - Genesis 1, 30A, Subparagraph VIII."

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