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Excerpt from Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. 1 of 3: With an English Translation by Richard M. Gummere
The charge was vague and the accused was given no opportunity to defend himself.
The eight years of exile were productive of much literary work. The tragedies, which have had such in?uence on later drama, are the fruit of this period, besides certain essays on philosophic subjects, and a rather cringing letter to Polybius, a rich freedman at the court of Claudius. In 49, however, Fortune, whom Seneca as a Stoic so often ridicules, came to his rescue. Agrippina had him recalled and ap pointed tutor to her young son, later to become the Emperor Nero. Holding the usual offices of state, and growing in prominence, Seneca administered the affairs of the prince, in partnership with Burrus, the praetorian. Together they maintained the balance of power between throne and Senate until the death of buri us in the year 62. After that time, a philo sopher without the support of military power was unable to cope with the vices and whims of the monster on the throne.
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