History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . c.) - Inst, orat., x. 1. Fronto is still more severe. ^ Dion, who is very severe to him (cf., Ixi. 10; Ixii. :?). He accuses Seueca of having,by the exorbitant usury he obtained upon loans, amounting in all to 10,000,000 drachmas,caused in great part the revolt iu Britain. Seneca himself admits that he carried hiscommercial transactions as far as Egypt. {Epist., 77 ; De Vita beata, 17.) * Let the reader peruse his Consolations to Polybus and his Treatise on Clemency,written after the murder of Britann
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . c.) - Inst, orat., x. 1. Fronto is still more severe. ^ Dion, who is very severe to him (cf., Ixi. 10; Ixii. :?). He accuses Seueca of having,by the exorbitant usury he obtained upon loans, amounting in all to 10,000,000 drachmas,caused in great part the revolt iu Britain. Seneca himself admits that he carried hiscommercial transactions as far as Egypt. {Epist., 77 ; De Vita beata, 17.) * Let the reader peruse his Consolations to Polybus and his Treatise on Clemency,written after the murder of Britannicus. Tac, Arm., xiii. 42 ; xiv. 52 ; Pliny, Hist. Xat., xiv. 5. HH 2 460 THE CJiSARS AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 believe Dion,^ lie was scarcely better than his coutemporaries ; asimple life, in gardens rivalling the emperors own, and in villasfilled with all the luxuries of Eoman refinement. I should liketo know, said an ex-proconsul in the open senate during thetime of Senecas greatest favour, I should like to know by whatphilosophic procedure he has in four years amassed 300,000,000. fCftitti ct Bust of Seueca.^ sesterces.^ To conclude as he had lived, he died with em-phasis. In spite of his treatise concerning Providence and hiseulogies upon suicide, after the manner of Cato, he held toostrongly to life to anticipate Xero ; but when the fatal messengercame, he made libations to Jupiter Liberator, declaimed his mostbrilliant maxims, and, through jealousy, perhaps, encouraged hiswife, the beautiful Paulina, to die with him. * Dion, Ixi. 10 : Tac, Ann., xiii. 42. ^ Museum of Naples. The authenticity of this bust has been of late disputed. ^ Tac, Ann., xiii. 42. NERO, 13 OCTOBER, Ô4 TO 9 JrNE, 68 461 These words may seem hard, but we well know, in whatconcerns action and the energetic and rational conduct of publicaffairs, what these intellectual men are worth whose cadencedperiods should never have been heard save in the prœtorium orfrom the chair of Quintilian,
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