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CORDUS, AULUS CREMUTIUS

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CORDUS, AULUS CREMUTIUS , See also:Roman historian of the later Augustan See also:age. He was the author of a See also:history (perhaps called Annales) of the events of the See also:civil See also:wars and the reign of See also:Augustus, embracing the See also:period from at least 43-18 B.C. In A.D. 25 he was brought to trial for having eulogized See also:Brutus and spoken of See also:Cassius as the last of the See also:Romans. His real offence was a witticism at the expense of See also:Sejanus, who put up two of his creatures to accuse him in the See also:senate. Seeing that nothing could See also:save him, Cordus starved himself to See also:death. A See also:decree of the senate ordered that his See also:works should be confiscated and burned by the aediles. Some copies, however, were saved by the efforts of Cordus's daughter Marcia, and after the death of Tiberius the See also:work was published at the See also:express wish of Caligula. It is impossible to See also:form an See also:opinion of it from the scanty fragments (H. See also:Peter, Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta,.1883). According to See also:ancient authorities, the writer was very outspoken in his denunciations, and his relatives considered it necessary to strike out the most offensive passages of the work before it was widely circulated (See also:Quintilian, Inslit. x. 1, 104).

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Pliny (Nat. Hist. x. 74 [37], xvi. Io8 145]) seem to refer to a work of a different nature fromthe history—perhaps a See also:treatise on Admiranda or remarkable things. See See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, iv. 34, 35; Suetonius, Tiberius, 61, Caligula, 16; See also:Seneca, Suasoriae, vii., esp. the Consolatio to Cordus's daughter Marcia; Dio Cassius lvii. 24. There are monographs by J. Held (1841) and C. Rathlef (186o). Also H. Peter, See also:Die geschichtliche Literatur fiber die romische Kaiserzeit (1897) ; See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit., Eng. trans., 297, I.

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