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en-wikipedia-org-3612		Seneca the Elder - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3062	297	63	If its characteristic concentration on the bizarre kind of imaginary lawsuits known as controversiae had earlier precedent in the schools somewhere in the Greek-speaking world as is likely, in view of the remoteness of the subject-matter and legal suppositions of these declamatory themes from the realities of Roman law-courts Seneca the Elder seems to have been totally unaware of it. Annaeus Seneca, and that in view of the clear preponderance in what can be read of the text's contents, of historical and political matter relating to the first decades of the Roman Empire, it is most likely to have originated in the elder Seneca's Histories. Winterbottom, Loeb edition, Seneca the Elder Vol. 2, pp 614-7, for the text and English translation of both these fragments.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3612.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3612.txt