person
Quintus Haterius
Haterius
also: Q. Haterius
Roman senator and orator (c. 65 BC – AD 26), celebrated in the Augustan and Tiberian age for an impetuous, ungovernable fluency; Augustus is reported to have said he 'needed a brake.' Seneca cites his headlong delivery as the opposite of the measured speech proper to a sound man.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.40.10 Quintus Haterius
Q. Haterius (c. 65 BC – AD 26), a celebrated senatorial orator under Augustus and Tiberius, famous for an unstoppable rush of words; Seneca's father records the same reputation, and Augustus joked that he 'needed a brake.'