His two favourite residences were a mansion near Puteoli, formerly the Academy of Cicero. 68, the year in which Nero perished he was admitted to familiar intercourse with Vitellius, and subsequently discharged the duties of proconsul of Asia with high renown.Īfter enjoying for a lengthened period the dignities of political and literary fame without incurring the envy which is for the most part the lot of distinguished statesmen and authors, he determined to retire from the busy world, and to pass his old age among his numerous villas, which were abundantly furnished with books and works of art. His life, in so far as we can trace it, presents a course of unbroken prosperity. He acquired great reputation as a pleader at the bar, and acted for some time as a member of that body of judicial umpires who were known as the Centumvirs. From his early years he devoted himself to oratory and poetry, taking Cicero as his model in the former, and Virgil in the latter.
The most voluminous among the Roman writers of heroic verse, was born about A.
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