Seneca 64 CE · Roman Italy
A simple meal of bread
After bathing · Estimated placement
Estimated by typical tue. 12:00 is illustrative, not a recorded mealtime.Source timing: After bathing, before sleep.
“stale bread”
Short verbatim excerpt · Seneca · translated by Richard M. Gummere
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Moral Letters to Lucilius — Letter 83, “On Drunkenness”
Loeb Classical Library · Volume II · Wikisource transcription
Letter 83, sections 3–6
Passage: Section 6
Timing & context
A note on this hour
A light meal without a table; Gummere calls it breakfast.
Retirement · an undated day in Letter 83 · A day described in a philosophical letter
Seneca describes a day, not a fixed timetable. The letter gives a sequence but no clock times; every placement is illustrative.
64 CE is a representative year within the letters’ late-life period, not a date recorded for this day.
Dating of the letters · Gummere’s introduction ↗