The Modern Courtier : Or, the Morals of Tacitus Upon Flattery

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They that accused 5f??fr/i, were certain of over-ruling Nero , to his Deftrudion : For that Burrhns and He were always .averfe to his Pleafures. For the Court is always full of certain People, who make it all their bufinefs to found the Difgufts andDifcontentments of Princes, & incenfe 'em againfl them who are both G 3 the 126 The ModernCotirtkr.
the Objed & the Caufe of them. And thu; it was, that Sejanns exafperated TiberiH, againft Afifsius Gdlnsy and that Cofnria- mu Capita and Eprins Marce
...llns perfwadec ]S!ero to rid himfelf of Thrafea, As tc what the Courtiers laid to Senecd^i Charge, that he afcrib'd to himfelf the fole Glory of furpafling all others in Elo- quence, that was only an Artifice, b^ which they rendered him fo much the more odious to Nno, in regard that he, continually making ufe of him for the compofing thofe Orations and Speeches which he had to make to the Senate, fhould thereby take notice, that SemcA made Merchandize of this f^Ioquence ; while 'twas the general faying, that whatever hefpokeordid, either Handfora and Noble, '^xW Sensca reap'd all the Ho- nour of it, ss being the firit Compofer.

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