[75] Tacitus does not say openly that Seneca was privy to the murder. On the whole he is favourable to Seneca, either because he followed the authority of Fabius Rusticus, a friend of Seneca, or because Seneca perished afterwards through Nero’s agency, or because he thought Seneca deserved his consideration.
[76] Seneca’s influence on the Imperial policy, especially in the liberal view it took regarding religion, is well brought out by Prof. W. M. Ramsay, in his book, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen, pp. 354 sqq.
[77] See the very large list of parallels collected by Heitland, Introduction to Haskins’ Lucan, § 51.
[78] See under Varro, [p. 96].
[79] Ed. of Cena Trimalchionis, p. 7.
[80] See O. Hirschfeld’s note on this passage in Römische Verwaltungsgeschichte, p. 261.
[81] Messalla was a favourite of Gaius, Narcissus of Claudius.
[82] Pomponius was the author of Aeneas and other tragedies. Pliny calls him ‘consularis poeta,’ ‘vates civisque clarissimus’ (N.H. vii. 80, xiii. 83). Cf. Tac. Ann. xii. 28.
[83] Given with other examples by W. C. Summers, Study of the Argonautica (Camb. 1894), p. 27.
[84] Summers, ibid. p. 56.