Note 1581 — BOOK XX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
M. Porcius Latro, a celebrated rhetorician of the reign of Augustus, a Spaniard by birth, and a friend and contemporary of the elder Seneca. His school was one of the most frequented at Rome, and he numbered among his scholars the poet Ovid. He died B.C. 4.