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Cornelius Celsus, An encyclopedic writer under Augustus and Tiberius. His medical treatises have survived. He wrote on oratory also, and is not infrequently quoted by Quintilian. a follower of the Sextii, The Sextii, father and son, were Pythagorean philosophers of the Augustan age, with something of a Stoic tendency as well. wrote a number of philosophical works, which have considerable grace and polish. Among the Stoics Plautus 123 is useful as giving a knowledge of the subject.
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Among the Epicureans Catius A contemporary of Cicero, who speaks of him somewhat contemptuously. He wrote four books de rerum matura et de summo bono. is agreeable to read, though lacking in weight. I have deliberately postponed the discussion of Seneca in connexion with the various departments of literature owing to the fact that there is a general, though false, impression that I condemn and even detest him. It is true that I had occasion to pass censure upon him when I was endeavouring to recall students from a depraved style, weakened by every kind of error, to a severer standard of taste.
