Note 56 — OCTAVIA, A TRAGEDY.
Elizabeth Twining Hall translation
L. Annaeus Seneca was a senator and philosopher in the reign of Caligula. Incurring the displeasure of Messalina, the wife of Claudius, he was banished in 41 A.D. to Corsica. He was recalled in 48 by Agrippina to be the tutor of Nero. After the accession of his pupil to the throne, Seneca was for a long time the ruling power, but being implicated in the Pisonian conspiracy, he was driven to suicide 65 A.D.