He is best known for a literary work that included the characters of Giton, Ascyltos, and the narrator, Encolpius, that was written during his time as director of elegance in Nero's court.  
He was accused of a conspiring to assassinate the emperor by Tigellinus, the commander of the emperor's guard.  This followed his time as governor of Bithynia and first magistrate of Rome.  Tacitus also relates that after being arrested, this man committed suicide by slitting his veins and then bandaging them to delay death.  He is best known for a literary work that included the characters of Giton, Ascyltos, and the narrator, Encolpius, that was written during his time as director of elegance in Nero's court.  FTP, name this writer, who introduced the loud-mouthed host Trimalchio in his masterpiece, the Satyricon.
He was accused of a conspiring to assassinate the emperor by Tigellinus, the commander of the emperor's guard.  
Petronius