Murredius(57 words)
[German version]
Roman rhetor of the Augustan-Tiberian period. His contemporary, Seneca the Elder, characterizes him whenever the opportunity arises with negative epithets: obscenitas, ‘vulgarity’ (Sen. Contr. 1,2,21); stultitia, ‘stupidity’ (1,4,12); ‘fatuity’ (7,5,10); ‘buffoonery’ (7,2,14); ‘empty magniloquence’ (9,2,27); insania, ‘madness’ (Sen. Suas. 2,16).
Schmidt, Peter L. (Constance)
Bibliography
J. Fairweather, Seneca the Elder, 1981, passim (Index 399).
Cite this page
Schmidt, Peter L. (Constance),
“Murredius”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 02 July 2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e812360>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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