_Suasoriae_, 229;
his history, 230.

Seneca, L. Annaeus, the younger,
birth, family, education, 240;
voyage to Egypt, 241;
political advancement, 242;
banishment, recall, 243;
tutorship of Nero, privy to Claudius' murder, 244;
checks Nero, 245;
power and wealth, 246;
loss of power, 247;
wishes to retire, 248;
Piso's conspiracy, death of Seneca, 248;
extant prose works, 249;
extant poems, incl. tragedies, 252;
lost works, 253;
spurious works, views and character, 254;
style, 255;
imit. Curtius Rufus, 257;
friend of Persius, 261;
of Calp. Sic. 276;
of Lucilius Iunior, 277 _sqq._;
foll. by Lucan, 271;
imit. by Lucilius, 280;
by Val. Flaccus, 288;
by Juv. 326;
patron of Mart. 296;
Quintilian's antagonism to, 309.

Servius, 354, 147 _sqq._

Sextius, 237, 240 _sqq._

Siculus, _see_ Calpurnius.

Silanus, D. 203.

Silius Italicus,
life, 289;
_Punica_, 290;
models, 291;
Homerus Latinus, 291;
friend of Mart. 298;
of Pliny the younger, 335;
on life of Ennius, 26;
imit. Virg. 163.

Siron, 149, 150.

Sisenna, L. Cornelius, 67;
foll. by Sall. 129;
by Tac. 346.

Sophocles,
imit. by Pacuv. 36;
by Accius, 57;
by Virg. 161;
by Sen. 253.

Soranus, _see_ Valerius.

Sotadean metre, 31, 57.

Sotion, 240.

Stataria, 11, 46.

Statius, _see_ Caecilius.

Statius, P. Papinius,
birth, 291;
poetical competitions, 292;
patronized by Domitian, admiration for Lucan and Virgil, 293;
works, 293-5;
imit. Virg. 163;
Val. Flaccus, 288;
friend of Lucan, 267;
sneered at by Mart. 298.

Stilo, Aelius, 10, 25, 29.

Stoicism,
discussed by Cic. 79 _sqq._;
in Virg. 162;
Hor.'s attitude to, 173;
in Sen. 241, 254;
in Persius, 262;
in Lucan, 270;
in _Aetna_, 279;
in Juv. 325.

Sueius, 66.

Suessa, birthpl. of Lucilius, 59.

Suetonius Tranquillus, C.,
life, 348;
works, 349;
biography of Lucan, 264.

Sulla, 68, 129.

Sulmo, birthpl. of Ovid, 200.

Sulpicia, 191.

Sulpicius, 181.

Sulpicius Apollinaris, 18, 51.

Syrus, see Publilius.

Tabernaria fabula, 6, 64.

Tacitus, Cornelius, 336;
birth and rank, 337;
reputation as an orator, 338;
political career, death, 339;
works, 340-3;