Lucius Cornelius Sisenna

Reading notes

• A Dialogue on Oratory §23 Sisenna

  Late-Republican historian and orator whose annalistic history the antiquarians prized.

• The Histories §2.9 Sisenna

  A centurion bearing the tokens of concord from the Syrian army to the praetorians, whom the false Nero tried to suborn; he fled the island in alarm.