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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

62. Sources: ancient Vita, based on material collected c. end of 1st c. A.D., printed<br />

by <strong>Clausen</strong> in his larger ed. (Oxford 1956) 35-9; tr. by J. C. Rolfe, Suetonius 11 (Loeb,<br />

*9»4) 495-9-<br />

WORKS<br />

Six Satires (650 hexameters), with a preface in scazons, pubd by Cornutus <strong>and</strong> Caesius<br />

Bassus after P.'s death.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES: TEXTS: W. V. <strong>Clausen</strong> (Oxford 1956); idem<br />

(OCT, 1966: with Juvenal); D. Bo (Paravia, 1969: with bibliography), COMMENTARIES:<br />

O. Jahn (Leipzig 1843; repr. 1967); J. Conington, 3rd ed. rev. H. Nettleship (Oxford<br />

1893); F. Villeneuve (Paris 1918).<br />

TRANSLATIONS: G. G. Ramsay (Loeb, 1918); N. Rudd (Penguin, 1979).<br />

STUDIES: F. Villeneuve, Essaisur Perse (Paris 1918); T. Ciresola, La forma^ione<br />

del linguaggio poetico di Persio (Rovereto 1953); G. Far<strong>and</strong>a, ' Caratteristiche dello<br />

stile e del linguaggio poetico di Persio', R.I.L. 88 (1955) 512—38; D. Henss, 'Die<br />

Imitations-technik des Persius', Philologus 99 (1955) 277—94; R. G. M. Nisbet,<br />

'Persius', in (ed.) J. P. Sullivan, Satire (London 1963); J. H. Waszink, 'Das Einleitungsgedicht<br />

des Persius', W.S. j6 (1963) 79-91; W. S. Anderson, 'Persius <strong>and</strong><br />

the rejection of society', Wiss. Zs. Univ. Rostock 15 (1966) 409—16; O. Skutsch,<br />

Studio. Enniana (London 1968) 25 ff. <strong>and</strong> I26ff.; J. Bramble, Persius <strong>and</strong> the programmatic<br />

satire (Cambridge 1974); N. Rudd, 'Association of ideas in Persius', Lines of<br />

enquiry (Cambridge 1976) 54—83.<br />

LEXICON: D. Bo (Hildesheim 1967).<br />

SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS<br />

LIFE<br />

Date of birth undetermined, but generally placed c. 4 B.C. (see M. Pr&hac, R.E.L. 11<br />

(1934) 360—75; N. Scivoletto, G.I.F. 19 (1966) 21—31). b. Corduba, educ. Rome;<br />

already well known as writer <strong>and</strong> speaker by c. A.D. 39. Exiled to Corsica 41; recalled at<br />

the instance of Agrippina, made tutor to Nero, <strong>and</strong> designated praetor 49; joint chief<br />

adviser (with Burrus) in administration of empire from Nero's accession in 54 until 62;<br />

consul suffectus 5 5 or 56. Fell from favour 62, <strong>and</strong> virtually retired from public affairs.<br />

Shortly after discovery of Pisonian conspiracy (April 65) was charged with complicity,<br />

<strong>and</strong> committed suicide on Nero's orders. Ancient sources printed by W. Trillitzsch,<br />

Seneca im literarischen Urteil der Antike. Darstellung und Sammlung der Zeugnisse<br />

868<br />

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