A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

Facunda loquitur Corduba[^[1038]]—

has been interpreted as implying that Seneca the philosopher was a different person from Seneca the tragedian. There can, however, be scarcely any doubt that he was speaking of M. Annæus Seneca the rhetorician, and his son Lucius the philosopher. Sidonius Apollinaris,[^[1039]] the son-in-law of the Emperor Flavius Avitus, and Bishop of Clermont,[^[1040]] in the last years of the Roman empire, unhesitatingly draws a distinction between them. He enumerates three members of the Cordovan family:—

Quorum unus colit hispidum Platonem,

Incassumque suum monet Neronem,

Orchestram quatit alter Euripidis

Pictum fæcibus Æschylum sequutus,

Aut plaustris solitum sonare Thespim

Pugnam tertius ille Gallicanam

Dixit Cæsaris.

Carm. ix. 231.