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Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 5.3
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1. Horace, Odes, 1.37 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.37. and so many of the people followed him, that he was encouraged to come down from the mountains, and to give battle to Antiochus’s generals, when he beat them, and drove them out of Judea. So he came to the government by this his success, and became the prince of his own people by their own free consent, and then died, leaving the government to Judas, his eldest son. 1.37. But as he was avenging himself on his enemies, there fell upon him another providential calamity; for in the seventh year of his reign, when the war about Actium was at the height, at the beginning of the spring, the earth was shaken, and destroyed an immense number of cattle, with thirty thousand men; but the army received no harm, because it lay in the open air.
2. Ovid, Fasti, 5.35 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

5.35. Earth bore the Giants, a fierce brood of savage monsters
3. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.658 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.658. Anchises bade us speedily set sail
4. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 5.12.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5.12.19.  But I take Nature for my guide and regard any man whatsoever as fairer to view than a eunuch, nor can I believe that Providence is ever so indifferent to what itself has created as to allow weakness to be an excellence, nor again can I think that the knife can render beautiful that which, if produced in the natural course of birth, would be regarded as a monster. A false resemblance to the female sex may in itself delight lust, if it will, but depravity of morals will never acquire such ascendancy as to succeed in giving real value to that to which it has succeeded in giving a high price.
5. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 5.12.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5.12.19.  But I take Nature for my guide and regard any man whatsoever as fairer to view than a eunuch, nor can I believe that Providence is ever so indifferent to what itself has created as to allow weakness to be an excellence, nor again can I think that the knife can render beautiful that which, if produced in the natural course of birth, would be regarded as a monster. A false resemblance to the female sex may in itself delight lust, if it will, but depravity of morals will never acquire such ascendancy as to succeed in giving real value to that to which it has succeeded in giving a high price.
6. Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 1.2, 4.3, 5.1-5.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 50.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Suetonius, Caligula, 22 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. Suetonius, Claudius, 31, 30 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

10. Tacitus, Annals, 13.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13.3.  On the day of the obsequies, the prince opened his panegyric of Claudius. So long as he rehearsed the antiquity of his family, the consulates and the triumphs of his ancestors, he was taken seriously by himself and by others. Allusions, also, to his literary attainments and to the freedom of his reign from reverses abroad had a favourable hearing. But when the orator addressed himself to his foresight and sagacity, no one could repress a smile; though the speech, as the composition of Seneca, exhibited the degree of polish to be expected from that famous man, whose pleasing talent was so well suited to a contemporary audience. The elderly observers, who make a pastime of comparing old days and new, remarked that Nero was the first master of the empire to stand in need of borrowed eloquence. For the dictator Caesar had rivalled the greatest orators; and Augustus had the ready and fluent diction appropriate to a monarch. Tiberius was, in addition, a master of the art of weighing words — powerful, moreover, in the expression of his views, or, if ambiguous, ambiguous by design. Even Caligula's troubled brain did not affect his power of speech; and, when Claudius had prepared his harangues, elegance was not the quality that was missed. But Nero, even in his childish years, turned his vivacious mind to other interests: he carved, painted, practised singing or driving, and occasionally in a set of verses showed that he had in him the rudiments of culture.


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appearance Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164
birth Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164, 213
claudius, and seneca Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
claudius Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164, 166, 213
congenital disabilities and diseases Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164
deformity Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 213
depicting, and public eye Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
depicting, and seneca Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
diagnosis (retrospective) Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164
disease Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164
fool Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 166
gods Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
head Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164, 166
health Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 166
human Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164, 166
mobility impairment Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164
monster Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 213
morio Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 213
orator Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 166
public eye, and nero Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
public eye, in senecas de clementia Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
satire Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164, 166
seneca, and nero Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
seneca, apocolocyntosis Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
seneca, de clementia Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
seneca, rulers in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
seneca Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 84
slave Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 213
speech impairment Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 164, 166
stutter Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 166
veteran Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 213
war' Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 213