seneca the elder造句

• Fragmentary evidence also remains from Pliny the Elder, Strabo and Seneca the Elder.
• Seneca the Elder believed that drinking wine magnified the physical and psychological defects of the drinker.
• According to Seneca the Elder, Ovid tended to the emotional, not the argumentative pole of rhetoric.
• His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan.
• Seneca the Elder has preserved two passages of Bruttedius Niger s historical work which deal with the assassination of Cicero ( 43 BC ).
• We know that veils were important in this case, as they protected ( or encouraged according to Seneca the Elder ) against solicitations by men.
• He was educated in Hispania, a part of the Roman Empire which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers, including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, Marsus.
• Other possible sources include the " Florentine History " ( " Istorie fiorentine " ) by Niccol?Machiavelli and the " Excerpta Controversarium " of Seneca the Elder.
• This belief was affirmed by Seneca the Elder in his Natural History " " They weave webs, like spiders, that become a luxurious clothing material for women, called silk ."
• Of the remaining Roman declamations the vast majority are " controversiae "; only one book of " suasoriae " survive, that being in Seneca the Elder's collection.
• He was a native of Smyrna, a Quinctilius Varus with his father's defeat in the Teutoburgian Forest ( Seneca the Elder, " Controv . " i . 3, 10 ).
• The poet Ovid is recorded by Seneca the Elder as being a star declaimer, and the works of the satirists Martial and Juvenal, as well as the historian Tacitus, reveal a substantial declamatory influence.
• Bedridden for weeks while recuperating, Peary wrote on a wall, " Inveniam viam aut faciam " ( " I shall find a way or make one . " ), attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca the Elder.
• Seneca the Elder speaks highly of Bassus as an historian; however, the fragments preserved in that writer's " Suasoriae " ( vi . 23 ) relating to the death of Cicero are characterized by an affected style.
• Seneca the Elder noted that " " impudicita " is a crime for the freeborn, a necessity in a slave, a duty for the freedman " : Male-male sex in Rome asserted the power of the citizen over slaves, confirming his masculinity.
• All that remains of his works is a fragment preserved in the " Suasoria " of the rhetorician Seneca the Elder, from a description of the voyage of Germanicus ( AD 16 ) through the river Ems to the Northern Ocean, when he was overtaken by the storm described by Tacitus.