![]() ![]() ![]() It seems probable that Messalina, the wife of Claudius, was jealous of the influence of Julia with Claudius, and hated her for her haughty behaviour. Claudius had recalled to Rome his nieces Agrippina and Julia whom their brother Caligula had exiled to the island of Pontia (Ponza). ![]() the successor of Caligula, Seneca was banished to Corsica. In the first year of the reign of Claudius (A. Seneca obtained the quaestorship, but the time is uncertain. The emperor also affected to despise the eloquence of Seneca : he said that it was sand without lime (Sueton. ![]() He was spared, it is said, because Caligula was assured by one of his mistresses that Seneca would soon die of disease. He also soon gained distinction as a pleader of causes, and he excited the jealousy and hatred of Caligula by the ability with which he conducted a case in the senate before the emperor. Though he was naturally of a weak body, he was a hard student from his youth, and he devoted himself with great ardour to rhetoric and philosophy. C., and brought to Rome by his parents when he was a child. Annaeus Seneca, was born at Corduba, probably about a few years B. Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger or the Younger Seneca ![]()
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