Dialogorum liber XII: Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione, texte Latin;

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This inscription, hicli, though the meanin i notclear, is of great importanCecior the Chronolog o Paul's life an traveis, prove that Gallio, heirother of Seneca, wRS OVernor of Achaia hen Claudius a Deo hallecla imperato twenty-si times. his etai fixes thectate of tho letter firs hali 1 52 A. D. The term

which was probabi no prolonge in Gallio' case i hesiissere fron malaria in Achaia: and it a the rule unde Claudius that suci ossice egan on July Ist. Itis thereiore inferre that Gallio a governor o Achaia frontes ut is 5 to Jul IS 52 A. D. Corinth was a this time the hie cit of Achaia

Pompeium Plantam, praefectum Aegypti, amicum meum.

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aut dulcem generasse Gallionem'.

Jeronae' Chronicie, unde the ear 66 A. D. Iunius Gallio frate Senecae πνegius declamator, propria SH manu

interfecit. That he is callei egreg. ecl. is probabi clue o confusion illi his adoptive ather in

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SENECA xlv

to an early deat β. e Survive Gaius however, ut Wastianis e in I A. D. the firSt year of the eignis Claudius. In se A. D. tie a recalle by the influence of Agrippina,

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inScription proves that he wa consul tisfectus in thesecon hali of the ear 57y. In the ear in Nero

continue to e cluring the neX eight years his hiet adviSer. He a Leen Calle ' the ne rea Minister unde the Empire ': ut ancient evideno in supporto this estimate is ardo find. Tacitus, hocis thema in authorit for his perio' g, is O ill disposed to-

1ul reacter of his ritings an doutit: ut there is as litilectoutit of his ea liness. He probabi thought iniseli justitie in retaining his position On the ground that his

the imperia domat in Egypt Seneca alludes o his propertythere Epp. 77 3ὶ se Hirschfeld Aletne christe P. 555.

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ti insertin some quite irrelevant remari ori jumping

Epp. 6. I liber leuis mihi uisus est, cum esset nec mei nec tui corporis, Sed qui primo aspectu aut T. Litii aut Epictiri posset uideri. Se n. t Helu C. I94 2. Tac Ann. xiii 3 2 fuit illi uiro ingenium amoenum et temporis eius auribus accomodatum Quintilia quote Delow: Plin Nat Hist. Ni 5Ι.

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xlviii INTRODUCTION

he was Aharpi criticise for fauits of stylet Ouintilian Fronto, an Aulus Gellius λ. quintilian is a formidatile critic ut the opinion of the wo alter is noti mucti

Ia tum autem solus hic fere in manibus adulescentium fuit: Fronto, p. 55, 156 Naber Aulus Gellius Noct. Ast. ii 2. of this pat Fronto is much the et ter critic Gellius, though

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The praenomen is recordei in Vacca 'S of Lucan. Controu. ii praef. erat quidem tibi maius ingenium

quam fratribus tuis, omnium bonartim artium capacisSilitat iri. Controu. .l. Helu. c. I Da honores SapieHων contem

psit.

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Tac. An n. vi I Mela petitione honorum abstinet erat per ambitionem praeposteram, ut eqties Omanu consulapibus potentia aequareturi simul adquirendae pecuniae breuius iter credebat per procurationes administrandis principis negotris. idem Annaeum Lucanum genuerat, raride adiumentum claritudiniS. l. l. 4 6.

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lij INTRODUCTION

si illos uincam, Si uinCRr UrSUS, AmRndo mutuus inter no Si bene Certet amor si dulci Marcus qui nunc sermone fritinnitiaCuncto Patruo prouocet Ore UOS. E. g. Ad Att. iii 23, 5 metim Ciceronem, cui nihil misello relinquo praeter uvidiam et ignominiam nominis mei Fam