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Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 10

nan Then arose the blessed Augustus, when his turn came, and spoke with much eloquence. "I call you to witness, my lords and gentlemen," said he, "that since the day I was made a god I have never uttered one word. I always mind my own business. But now I can keep on the mask no longer, nor conceal the sorrow which shame makes all the greater. Is it for this I have made peace by land and sea? For this have I calmed intestine wars? For this, laid a firm foundation of law for Rome, adorned it with buildings, and all that — my lords, words fail me; there are none can rise to the height of my indignation. I must borrow that saying of the eloquent Messala Corvinus, I am ashamed of my authority. This man, my lords, who looks as though he could not hurt a fly, used to chop off heads as easily as a dog sits down. But why should I speak of all those men, and such men? There is no time to lament for public disasters, when one has so many private sorrows to think of. I leave that, therefore, and say only this; for even if my sister knows no Greek, I do: The knee is nearer than the shin. This man you see, who for so many years has been masquerading under my name, has done me the favour of murdering two Julias, great-granddaughters of mine, one by cold steel and one by starvation; and one great grandson, L. Silanus — see, Jupiter, whether he had a case against him (at least it is your own if you will be fair.) Come tell me, blessed Claudius, why of all those you killed, both men and women, without a hearing, why you did not hear their side of the case first, before putting them to death? Where do we find that custom? It is not done in heaven.

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1. Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 7.5, 9.2-9.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acta senatus	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
adjudication, adjudicating	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
archive	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
audience	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
augustus	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173; Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
caligula	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
case	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
citizenship, roman	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
claudius	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57; Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
clementia	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
commodus	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
consul	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
crime	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
debate, space for	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57
diespiter	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
equity	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
exemplum, exempla	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
family	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
friend, friendship	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
hercules	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
homer	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
humour	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57
imperial adjudication	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
janus	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
jupiter	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57
jurisdiction	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
justice	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
knight	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
law	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
legitimacy, legitimation	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
memory	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
menippean satire	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
moral	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141
narrative	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
nero	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
occupations	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
power	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
republic, republican	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
senate	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
senator, senatorial	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
seneca the elder	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
seneca the younger	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
trial	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140, 141
troy	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
vica pota	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
virtue'	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
virtue	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 141