As to the son, I cannot bear him.

His style affects me in something the same way with that of Gibbon.

But Lucius Seneca's affectation is even more rank than Gibbon's.

His works are made up of mottoes.

There is hardly a sentence which might not be quoted; but to read him straightforward is like dining on nothing but anchovy sauce.
I have read, as one does read such stuff, Valerius Maximus, Annaeus Florus, Lucius Ampelius, and Aurelius Victor.