Persius

Aulus Persius Flaccus was born in AD 34 at Volaterrae, now Volterra, in Etruria, into a wealthy family of the equestrian class. His father died when he was six, and his stepfather a few years later. At twelve he was sent to Rome to study grammar and rhetoric. As a teenager he became a student and close friend of the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, who taught him for the rest of his short life. He also befriended the poet Lucan and the senator Thrasea Paetus, a relative by marriage, with whom he traveled. He met the philosopher Seneca but was not impressed by him. He was devoted to his mother, sister and aunt. He wrote slowly and left only six satires, a few hundred lines in all, which criticize the poor taste of contemporary poets, the vanity of the rich and the confusion of ordinary people about what is good, and recommend the Stoic life of virtue. He died in AD 62, aged 27. Cornutus and another friend edited the satires for publication, and they were widely read in the Middle Ages.

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