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Updated: June 28, 2025
So the emperor before the soldiers called his sickness "wicked," because it did not allow him to display wickedness in one more case. Again he made way with Thrasea Priscus, a person second to none in family or intelligence. "Nay, I could not recite nor give the names all over" Dio, because the slain were very well known in those days, even makes a list of them.
Let us observe this rule, both in our public and in our private relations to be inexorable to ourselves, but to treat the rest of the world with tenderness, including even those who forgive only themselves. Let us always remember the saying of that most humane and therefore very great Thrasea: "He who hates vices, hates mankind."
Priscus Helvidius, son-in-law of Thrasea and friend of the younger Pliny, was put to death by Vespasian. Suet. Vesp. 15; His. 4, 5; Juv. Sat. 5, 36. Laudati essent. The imp. and plup. subj. are used in narration after cum, even when it denotes time merely. Here however a causal connection is also intended. Triumviris. Comitio ac foro. The comitium was a part of the forum. Suet.
Arria, the wife of Caecina Paetus, a consular person, was the mother of another Arria, the wife of Thrasea Paetus, he whose virtue was so renowned in the time of Nero, and by this son-in-law, the grandmother of Fannia: for the resemblance of the names of these men and women, and their fortunes, have led to several mistakes.
It is probable that his stern friends, Thrasea and Soranus disapproved of a courtier like Seneca professing stoicism, and would show him no countenance.
The two studies which despotism had done so much to destroy, oratory and jurisprudence, still found a few votaries. The chief field for speaking was the senate, where men like Crispus, Eprius Marcellus, and Suillius the accuser of Seneca, exercised their genius in adroit flattery. Thrasea, Helvidius, and the opposition, were compelled to study repression rather than fulness.
He was tenderly loved by the great Thrasea, whose righteous life and glorious death form perhaps the richest lesson that the whole imperial history affords. Thrasea was a Cato in justice, but more than a Cato in goodness, inasmuch as his lot was harder, and his spirit gentler and more human.
"Give it to Phædon," he said, tossing the note to Thrasea, "and say to him, ’if he make not the better haste, I shall be at Hortensia’s house before him.’ And then, hark ye, tell some of those knaves in the hall without, to make ready with all speed my light chariot, and yoke the two black horses Aufidus and Acheron. With all speed, mark ye!
"Hold, Thrasea, hold," cried Paullus, "by the Gods! you have slain him." "No, I have not. No! no! his head is too hard for that," answered the freedman; "I felt my staff rebound from the bone, which it would not have done, had the skull been fractured. No! he is not dead, though he deserved to die very richly." "I am glad of it," replied Paullus. "I would not have him killed, for many reasons.
I am sick, it is true, but rather in soul than in body." This was true. Seneca lacked the strength of soul which Cornutus possessed, for example, or Thrasea; hence his life was a series of concessions to crime.
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