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Seneca's Exile and the Ad Helviam: A Reinterpretation

Arther Ferrill

Classical Philology. (Oct., 1966) pp. 253-257

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[197 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[43 words] tiberius, tacitus, augustus, claudius, germanicus, suetonius, gaius, emperor, nero, drusus, agrippina, suet, piso, agrippa, senate, livia, velleius, caligula, reign, sejanus, princeps, annals, syme, corbulo, principate, julia, imperial, silanus, historian, gallus

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[38 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

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[29 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[23 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[18 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[16 words] tibi, mihi, quid, ovid, nunc, haec, quis, tamen, esse, ille, illa, semper, ipse, erit, sine, quoque, fuit, amor, saepe, nobis, quem, licet, puer, bene, trist, habet, nostra, manus, modo, erat

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[14 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[13 words] tacitus, nero, domitian, vespasian, galba, suetonius, agricola, emperor, titus, otho, vitellius, suet, trajan, reign, pliny, annals, nerva, syme, histories, dialogus, germania, verginius, flavian, principate, imperial, vindex, tacite, maternus, libertas, tacitean

[13 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[13 words] pour, mais, nous, comme, cette, avec, sont, meme, deux, fait, bien, etre, aussi, elle, entre, tout, dont, leur, sans, autre, peut, etait, donc, avait, voir, autres, apres, ainsi, encore, chez

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[9 words] esse, atque, enim, etiam, quid, neque, cicero, eius, nihil, quidem, esset, tamen, nisi, mihi, sibi, quibus, erat, causa, haec, fuit, omnia, modo, quem, autem, omnes, ipse, sine, quis, ille, rerum

[8 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[8 words] family, father, name, sons, his_father, consul, daughter, married, brother, families, younger, whom, wife, his_son, elder, mother, names, himself, brothers, cognomen, birth, murena, young, sister, early, marriage, grandson, grandfather, adoption, became

[8 words] latin, proceedings, review, volume, boston, weekly, american_philological_association, frank, charles, title, classical_philology, henry, translation, books, oldfather, edition, english, publications, philological, moore, gildersleeve, horace, edward, cloth, smith, entitled, fowler, scott, session, cicero

[8 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[5 words] julian, ammianus, procopius, emperor, constantinople, justinian, eunapius, zosimus, goths, constantius, libanius, malalas, themistius, jordanes, fables, antioch, cassiodorus, empire, gothic, romans, aesop, barbarians, marcellinus, valens, reign, persian, imperial, ammianus_marcellinus, theodosius, chron