Download or read book Declamations, Volume II: Controversiae, Books 7-10. Suasoriae. Fragments written by Seneca the Seneca the Elder and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seneca the Elder (?55 BCE-40 CE) collected ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least one (surviving) of suasoriae. Extracts from famous declaimers of Seneca's illuminate influences on the styles of most pagan (and many Christian) writers of the Empire.