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Tacitus

Roman historian

Martial

Roman poet

Juvenal

Roman poet

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Roman author

Seneca

Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]

Pliny the Elder

Roman scholar

Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

Pliny the Younger

Roman author

Suetonius

Roman author

Lucan

Roman author

Statius

Roman poet

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Roman poet

Persius

Roman poet

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roman author