Note 103 — Chapter I · THE ELDER SENECA: ORATORS AND RHETORICIANS
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E.g. X. iv. 18 and 23. For Seneca’s Roman preferences cf. praise of a Greek speaker of Roman type, Agroitas from Marseilles (Contr., II. vi. 12); glances at Greek unsavoury realism (I. ii. 22-23); record of Arellius Fuscus’s views about Roman borrowers who improved on Greek originals (IX. i. 13); and Cestius’s views on Cicero’s surpassing “arrogant Greece,” Suas., vii. 10, repeating Seneca’s phrase in Contr., I. praef. 6.