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CORDUS, AULUS CREMUTIUS

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 143 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CORDUS, AULUS CREMUTIUS , Roman historian of the later Augustan age. He was the author of a history (perhaps called Annales) of the events of the civil wars and the reign of
Augustus
 , embracing the period from at least 43-18 B.C. In A.D. 25 he was brought to trial for having eulogized
Brutus
  and spoken of
Cassius
  as the last of the Romans. His real offence was a witticism at the expense of
Sejanus
 , who put up two of his creatures to accuse him in the senate. Seeing that nothing could save him,
Cordus
  starved himself to death. A decree of the senate ordered that his works should be confiscated and burned by the aediles. Some copies, however, were saved by the efforts of
Cordus
 's daughter Marcia, and after the death of Tiberius the
work
  was published at the express wish of Caligula. It is impossible to form an
opinion
  of it from the scanty fragments (H.
Peter
 , Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta,.1883). According to ancient authorities, the writer was very outspoken in his denunciations, and his relatives considered it necessary to strike out the most offensive passages of the
work
  before it was widely circulated (Quintilian, Inslit. x. 1, 104). Two passages in Pliny (Nat. Hist. x. 74 [37], xvi. Io8 145]) seem to refer to a work of a different nature fromthe historyperhaps a treatise on Admiranda or remarkable things.
See Tacitus, Annals, iv. 34, 35; Suetonius, Tiberius, 61, Caligula, 16;
Seneca
 , Suasoriae, vii., esp. the Consolatio to Cordus's daughter Marcia; Dio
Cassius
  lvii. 24. There are monographs by J. Held (1841) and C. Rathlef (186o). Also H.
Peter
 , Die geschichtliche Literatur fiber die romische Kaiserzeit (1897) ; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit., Eng. trans., 297, I.


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