Other possible sources include the Florentine History (Istorie fiorentine) by Niccolò Machiavelli and the Excerpta Controversarium of Seneca the Elder.

The rhetorical style of Fabianus is described by Seneca the Elder, and he is frequently cited in the third book of Controversiae as well as in the Suasoriae.

Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of Seneca the Elder; he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Seneca the Younger.

Fletcher may also have drawn upon the Controversiae of Seneca the Elder.

He must have been living after AD 9, since, we are told that he taunted the son of Quinctilius Varus with his father's defeat in the Teutoburgian Forest (Seneca the Elder, Controv.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a rhetorician and native of Corduba in Hispania Ulterior, known as Seneca the Elder.

Controversiae and Suasoriae of Seneca the Elder.

He was the second son of Helvia and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder.

He was a Spaniard by birth, and a friend and contemporary of Seneca the Elder, with whom he studied under Marillius, and by whom he is frequently mentioned.

Fragmentary evidence also remains from Pliny the Elder, Strabo and Seneca the Elder.