hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Epictetus, Works (ed. George Long) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline (ed. John Selby Watson, Rev. John Selby Watson, M.A.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Sallust, The Jugurthine War (ed. John Selby Watson, Rev. John Selby Watson, M.A.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson). You can also browse the collection for Seneca (Ohio, United States) or search for Seneca (Ohio, United States) in all documents.
Your search returned 5 results in 5 document sections:
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 9 (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 28 (search)
He twice entertained thoughts of restoring the republic;Augustus appears to have been in earnest on these occasions, at least, in his desire to retire into private life and release himself from the cares of government, if we may believe Seneca.-De Brev. Vit. c. 5. Of his two intimate advisers, Agrippa gave this counsel, while Mecaenas was for continuing his career of ambition --Eutrop. 1. 53.
first, immediately after he had crushed Antony, remembering that he had often charged him with being the obstacle to its restoration.
The second time was in consequence of a long illness, when he sent for the magistrates and the senate to his own house, and delivered them a particular account of the state of the empire.
But reflecting at the same time that it would be both hazardous to himself to return to the condition of a private person, and might be dangerous to the public to have the government placed again under the control of the people, he resolved to keep it in his own hands, whether w
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 17 (search)
He was instructed, when a boy, in the rudiments of almost all the liberal sciences; but his mother diverted him from the study of philosophy, as unsuited to one destined to be an emperor; and his preceptor, Seneca, discouraged him from reading the ancient orators, that he might longer secure his devotion to himself.
Therefore, having a turn for poetry, he composed verses both with pleasure and ease; nor did he, as some think, publish those of other writers as his own.
Several little pocketbooks and loose sheets have come into my possession, which contain some well-known verses in his own hand, and written in such a manner, that it was very evident, from the blotting and interlining, that they had not been transcribed from a copy, nor dictated by another, but were written by the composer of them.