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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he d
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"Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation"

- Frederic William Farrar

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