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Seneca
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synonyms: Seneca the Younger, Lucius Annaeus Seneca ???
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Definition:[4 BC - 65 AD]a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. As a tragedian, he is best-known for his Medea and Thyestes.He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero. However, some sources state that he may have been innocenttext from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Medea: We are undone! How harsh upon mine ears doth grate
The song! and even now I cannot comprehend
The vast extent of woe that hath befallen me.
Could Jason prove so false? Bereft of native land,
And home, and kingdom, could he leave me here alone
On foreign shores? Oh, cruel, could he quite reject120
My sum of service, he who saw the fire and sea
With crime o'ercome for his dear sake?
Seneca. Medea, act 2
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sentimental and pompous Titus Livius; turgid and lurid Seneca; watery and larval Suetonius;
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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Seneca cannot be too heavy nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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he set them to reading Seneca and Ovid while they were still in grammar school.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.430 (1970)
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