Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Lives of Illustrious Men/Jerome/Lucius Annaeus Seneca

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter XII.

Lucius Annæus Seneca^[1] of Cordova, disciple of the Stoic Sotion^[2] and uncle of Lucan the Poet, was a man of most continent life, whom I should not place in the category of saints were it not that those Epistles of Paul to Seneca and Seneca^[3] to Paul, which are read by many, provoke me. In these, written when he was tutor of Nero and the most powerful man of that time, he says that he would like to hold such a place among his countrymen as Paul held among Christians. He was put to death by Nero two years before Peter and Paul were crowned with martyrdom.

Footnotes

1. Died 65.
2. SotionCypr. Val. Her.; Phothion fotion, fotinus Socion or Sozonis, the mss.
3. and Seneca A H e a 21 10 Fabr. Val. etc.; or Seneca T 25 30 31 Her.