title: Seneca: Moral Essays, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library No. 214)
author: Seneca
description: John William Basore (b. 1870) was Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
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  LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
  SENECA
  v
  EPISTULAE MORALES
  II
  BOOKS LXVI-XCII
  Translated by
  R. M. GUMMERE
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  SENECA,
  Lucius
  Annaeus,
  born
  at
  Corduba
  (Cordova)
  c.$ or 4
  B.C.,
  of a
  noble and wealthy family, after an ailing
  childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's
  care, was a victim of life-long neurosis but
  became famous
  in
  rhetoric, phibsophy,
  money-making,
  and
  imperial
  service.
  After some disgrace during Claudius' reign
  he became
  tutor and
  then,
  in
  A.D.^4,
  advising minister to Nero, some of whose
  worst misdeeds he did not prevent.
  In-
  volved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he
  killed himself by order in a. d. 65. Wealthy,
  he
  preached
  indifference
  to
  wealth;
  evader
  of pain and
  death,' he preached
  scorn
  of
  both;
  and
  there
  were
  other
  contrasts between practice and principle.
  Wicked himself he was not. Of his works
  we have
  10
  mis-called
  'Dialogi',
  seven
  being
  p