[[25]] Plutarch, de esu carnium, ii, 1.

[[26]] Sen. Ep. 108, 3, 13-23.

[[27]] This is a quality that Quintilian notes in his style for praise or blame. Others (Gellius, N.A. xii, 2) found in him levis et quasi dicax argutia.

[[28]] Ep. 78, 2, 3, patris me indulgentissimi senectus retinuit.

[[29]] Ep. 58, 5.

[[30]] Ep. 95, 65

[[31]] His nephew Lucan, Quintilian severely says, was "perhaps a better model for orators than for poets."

[[32]] Ep. 49, 2. Virgil made one speech.

[[33]] ad Polybium, 13, 2, 3.

[[34]] Juvenal, x, 16, magnos Seneca prædivitis hortos.