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Papirius Fabianus
Fabianus
also: Fabianus
Roman philosopher and rhetorician, one of Seneca's teachers. Seneca cites his report of a boy at Rome who grew to a man's stature and died young.
Reading notes
- Consolation to Marcia §23 Fabianus
Papirius Fabianus, philosopher and one of Seneca's teachers, source of the anecdote of the boy who grew to a man's stature and died young.
- On the Shortness of Life §10.1 Fabianus
Papirius Fabianus, the Sextian philosopher and Seneca's own teacher, cited for his vigorous, unsubtle ethics.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.11.4 Fabianus
Papirius Fabianus (early 1st c. AD), philosopher and rhetorician, one of Seneca's own teachers; Seneca recalls how a modest blush became him as a witness before the senate.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.40.12 Fabianus
Papirius Fabianus, a philosopher and rhetorician of Seneca's youth whom he greatly admired; here praised for an easy fluency that was facility, not mere speed.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §16.100.1 Papirius Fabianus
Papirius Fabianus, philosopher and rhetorician of the Augustan-Tiberian age, one of Seneca's own teachers, admired for an abundant, unaffected prose style.
- Natural Questions §3.27.3 Fabianus
Papirius Fabianus, Sextian philosopher and Seneca's teacher; held the deluge needs no cosmic upheaval.