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Rh what our own writers have addressed to the Georges, and even the Charleses and Jameses, of the English monarchy; while that of the other is chiefly offensive from the connection in which it stands with the lessons of virtue and patriotism which his book was specially designed to illustrate. The elder Seneca, the master of a school of rhetoric, to which art his writings are devoted, makes no mention of the emperor under whom he wrote; but his son, better known as the statesman and philosopher, speaks of him with considerable moderation, and ascribes the worst of his deeds to Sejanus and the public informers (delatores) rather than to his own evil disposition. In the pages of Philo and Josephus the government of Tiberius is represented as mild and equitable: it is not until we come to Suetonius and Tacitus, in the third generation, that they are blazoned in the colours so painfully familiar to us."