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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt:...who was banished (according to the incorrect statement of Suidas, put to death) by Nero, on account of an objection he made to the poetical projects of the Emperor, in 68 A.D., according to Hieron. in Chron. (Cf., however, Eeimarus on the passage in Dio; he conjectures 66 A.D.) In the epitome of Diogenes (Part III. i. 33, 2) Cornutus closes the series of the Stoics mentioned by this writer. Of the theoretical and philosophical works attributed to him by Suidas, one on the gods has been preserved (sup. Part III. i. 301 sqq.); this is doubtless his own treatise and not a mere abstract of it. He is described in the Vita Persii Sueton. as tragicus, to which Osann (on Corn. De Nat. Dear. xxv.) rightly objects. Further details concerning him and his works will be found in Martini (DeL. Aim. Cornuto, Lugd. Bat. 1825, a work with which I am only acquainted at third hand), Villoison, and Osann, I. c.; Prcef. xvii. sqq.; 0. Jahn on Persius, Prolegg. viii. sqq. Among the disciples of Cornutus were (vide Vita Persii) Claudius Agathinus of Sparta (Osann, I. e. xviii., diifering from Jahn, p. xxvii., writes the name thus, following Galen, Definit. 14, vol. xix. 353 K), a celebrated physician, and Petronius Aristocrates of Magnesia, 'duo doctissimi et sanetissimi viri,' and the two Roman poets are Seneca, Musonius, Aurelius. Heracleitus, on A. Persius Flaccus (bom in 34, died in 62 A.D., vide Vita Persii, and Jahn, I. e. iii. sqq.) and Marcus Annaeus Lucanus the nephew of Seneca, born 39 A.D., died 65 A.D., both put to death for having joined in Piso.s conspiracy (vide concerning Lucanus the two lives which Weber has edited, Marb. 1856 sq.; the Vita Persii, Tacit. Ann. xv. 49, 56 sq. 70, and other statements compared by Weber), of whom Flaccus especially, as he says himse...