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History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

CHAPTER XLIII
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He wrote six satires, which are obscure and hard to understand.
LUCAN (39-65).
LUCAN, a nephew of Seneca, wrote an epic poem (not finished) called _Pharsalia_, upon the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
PLINY THE ELDER (23-79).
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS, of Northern Italy, was a great scholar in history, grammar, rhetoric, and natural science.

His work on _Natural History_ has come down to us.
STATIUS, MARTIAL, QUINTILIAN, JUVENAL.

STATIUS (45-96), a native of Naples, had considerable poetical talent.

He wrote the _Thebaid_, the _Achilleis_ (unfinished), and the _Silvae_.
MARTIAL (42-102), wrote sharp and witty epigrams, of which fifteen books are extant.

He was a native of Spain.
QUINTILIAN (35-95), was also a native of Spain.


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