Career
He is best known as author of spurious supplements to the text of the Satyricon of Petronius. In 1692 he announced to the French academies that he had a copy of previously unknown sections of the Satyricon. Nodot published a new edition of the Satyricon at Paris in 1693.
The forgery was soon suspected, but texts and translations of the Satyricon continued to incorporate Nodot"s supplements until the early 20th century.
