people
the Persians
also: Persarum
The Persian host of Xerxes, so vast that its king could measure but not number it, yet doomed within a hundred years.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §12 Persian
The Persians, here a poetic synonym for the eastern enemy of the mock-encomium.
- On Benefits §6.31.11 the Persian
The Persians, the people of Xerxes empire; here the host laid low through Greece, proof that a mob differs from an army.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.33.2 Persian
The Persians, proverbial among Greeks and Romans for luxurious flowing dress; Seneca's antithesis sets them against the Roman 'girt high' (alte cinctus, tunic hitched up for action) to say courage belongs to soft-clad and soldierly alike.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.71.37 Persians
The Persians, eastern empire proverbial for vast armies; named with the Medes and Dahae as the foreign foes a conqueror subdues --- nothing beside the inward conquest of one's vices.
- Natural Questions §5.18.10 the Persian king
The Persians; 'the most stupid king' is Xerxes, who bridged the Hellespont to invade Greece.