Attribution Error
The Saturae (commonly called the Satyricon) is attributed to Petronius, a Roman author of the 1st century CE (Neronian period), not to Marcus Terentius Varro. Varro (116–27 BCE) was a much earlier Roman polymath—grammarian, antiquarian, and prolific author—who lived roughly a century before Petronius. While Varro did write works in various genres, including satires, the Saturae attributed to Petronius is a distinct work from the Neronian period, not the Augustan.
The Actual Works
The Satyricon (or Saturae) is Petronius’s fragmentary narrative in mixed prose and verse, famous for its realistic depiction of Roman lower-class life, sexual content, and literary parody. The Liber Priapeorum is a separate collection of short poems dedicated to Priapus, a Greco-Roman fertility deity, and its authorship remains uncertain and may be miscellaneous or pseudonymous rather than a unified authorial work.
The title as presented conflates authors and texts. Verification against reliable classical sources would be necessary to clarify what specific edition or compilation is intended.
