Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

by Harold Edgeworth Butler

118. There is no clear proof of the performance on the Roman stage of any tragedy in the strict sense of the word during the Silver Age. The words used e.g. in Dio Chrys. (19, p. 261: 23, p. 396), Lucian (Nigrin. 8), Libanius (iii, p. 265, Reiske) may refer merely to the performance of isolated scenes. See note on Vespasian's attitude to the theatre, p. 166.

119. Pliny the elder wrote his life. Plin. Ep. iii. 5. Cp. also Tac. Ann. v. 8; xii. 28; Plin. N.H. xiii. 83.

120. Ribbeck, Trag. Rom. Fr. p. 268, fr. 1; p. 331 (ed. 3).

121. Ann. xi. 13.

122. Charis, Gr. Lat. i. p. 125, 23; p. 137, 23.

123. Tac. Dial. II.

124. Ib. 2, 3.

125. Ib. 3.

126. Ib. 3.

127. Ib. II.