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Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 9.1
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1. Epictetus, Discourses, 3.24.36 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
2. Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 1.2-1.3, 5.1-5.2, 9.2, 9.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Tacitus, Annals, 13.3, 14.31 (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. 14.31.  The Icenian king Prasutagus, celebrated for his long prosperity, had named the emperor his heir, together with his two daughters; an act of deference which he thought would place his kingdom and household beyond the risk of injury. The result was contrary — so much so that his kingdom was pillaged by centurions, his household by slaves; as though they had been prizes of war. As a beginning, his wife Boudicca was subjected to the lash and his daughters violated: all the chief men of the Icenians were stripped of their family estates, and the relatives of the king were treated as slaves. Impelled by this outrage and the dread of worse to come — for they had now been reduced to the status of a province — they flew to arms, and incited to rebellion the Trinobantes and others, who, not yet broken by servitude, had entered into a secret and treasonable compact to resume their independence. The bitterest animosity was felt against the veterans; who, fresh from their settlement in the colony of Camulodunum, were acting as though they had received a free gift of the entire country, driving the natives from their homes, ejecting them from their lands, — they styled them "captives" and "slaves," — and abetted in their fury by the troops, with their similar mode of life and their hopes of equal indulgence. More than this, the temple raised to the deified Claudius continually met the view, like the citadel of an eternal tyranny; while the priests, chosen for its service, were bound under the pretext of religion to pour out their fortunes like water. Nor did there seem any great difficulty in the demolition of a colony unprotected by fortifications — a point too little regarded by our commanders, whose thoughts had run more on the agreeable than on the useful.
4. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 4.23 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.23. To Pomponius Bassus. I have been delighted to hear from our mutual friends that you map out and bear your retirement in a way that is worthy of your ripe wisdom, that you live in a charming spot, that you take exercise on both sea and land, that you have plenty of good conversation, that you read a great deal and listen to others reading, and that, though your stock of knowledge is vast, you yet add thereto every day. That is just the way a man should spend his later years after filling the highest magistracies, after commanding armies, and devoting himself wholly to the service of the State for as long as it became him to do so. For we owe our early and middle manhood to our country, our last years are due to ourselves - as indeed the laws direct which enforce retirement when we reach a certain age. When will that appointed time come to me? When shall I attain the age at which I may honourably retire and imitate the example of beautiful and perfect peace that you set me? When shall I be able to enjoy calm retreat without people calling it not peaceful tranquillity but laziness and sloth? Farewell.
5. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 4.23 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.23. To Pomponius Bassus. I have been delighted to hear from our mutual friends that you map out and bear your retirement in a way that is worthy of your ripe wisdom, that you live in a charming spot, that you take exercise on both sea and land, that you have plenty of good conversation, that you read a great deal and listen to others reading, and that, though your stock of knowledge is vast, you yet add thereto every day. That is just the way a man should spend his later years after filling the highest magistracies, after commanding armies, and devoting himself wholly to the service of the State for as long as it became him to do so. For we owe our early and middle manhood to our country, our last years are due to ourselves - as indeed the laws direct which enforce retirement when we reach a certain age. When will that appointed time come to me? When shall I attain the age at which I may honourably retire and imitate the example of beautiful and perfect peace that you set me? When shall I be able to enjoy calm retreat without people calling it not peaceful tranquillity but laziness and sloth? Farewell.
6. Epigraphy, Ae, 1972.174

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aedile	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
aelius sejanus,l. ancestry,,downfall (	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
asprenas,p.	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
britain	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53
claudius,,maintains attendance	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
claudius	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53, 56
consularis	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
curia julia,,heating	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
curia julia,,staff	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
debate,space for	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53, 56
deification	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53, 56
didius gallus fabricius veiento,a.	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130, 273
drusilla	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 56
fronto advice to m. aurelius,,and senate attends	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
helvidius priscus,c. (elder)	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
humour	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53, 56
identity politics	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53
imperial cult	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53
janus	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53, 56
jupiter	Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 53
jupiter (as fictional president of the senate)	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
magistrates (in senate) absence,,execute orders	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
manlius valens,t.	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
pomponius bassus,t.	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
praetor	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
publicius certus	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
quaestor,,duties	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
quaestor caesaris	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
retirement age	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
senate,in latin and greek,,duration	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
senate,in latin and greek,,estimates	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,first century	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,makes relatio	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,participation of elderly members	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
senate,in latin and greek,,president's role"	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,procedure abuse	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,puts sententiae to vote	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,role	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senate,in latin and greek,,weak position	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130, 273
senators absences,,as judges	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
senators absences,,respect for age	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
tiberius,,concern to maintain attendance	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
trajan,,presides	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 273
tribune (of plebs),,and senate powers	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130, 273
urbi,praefectus (city prefect)'	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
vespasian,,and helvidius	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
vestricius spurinna	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153
vitellius (emperor),,relationship	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 130
volusius saturninus,l.	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 153