[75] Phars. v. 479.
[76] Ib. v. 364.
[77] Metuentia astra, 51; Sirius irdex, 247. Cf. Man. i. 399 sqq.
[78] The rare form Ditis = Dis occurs in these two writers.
[79] Ep. 34, 2.
[80] Ep. 79, 1, 5, 7.
[81] See v. 208, 216, 304, 315, 334.
[82] Tac. A. xiv. 52, carmina orebrius factitare points to tragedy, since that was Nero's favourite study. Mart. i. 61, 7, makes no distinction between Seneca the philosopher and Seneca the tragedian, nor does Quint. ix. 2, 8, Medea apud Senecam, seem to refer to any but the well-known name. M. Nisard hazards the conjecture that they are a joint production of the family; the rhetorician, his two sons Seneca and Mela, and his grandson Lucan having each worked at them!
[83] Aen. iv. 11, Con.
[84] Hippol. 1124 and Oed. 979, are the finest examples.