person
Metronax
A philosopher active at Naples whose lectures Seneca, in old age, attended daily (Letter 76); otherwise little known.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.76.4 Metronax
A philosopher teaching at Naples; Seneca, though old, went daily to hear him lecture (from the eighth hour). The detail dramatizes the letter's claim that one must keep learning as long as one lives.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.93.1 Metronax
Metronax, a philosopher of Naples whose death occasions this letter; Seneca elsewhere (Ep. 76) recalls attending his lectures.