“Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.”

— John Aubrey , book Brief Lives

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English writer and antiquarian 1626–1697

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“Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.”

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