Abstract
Caligula was dead when Seneca wrote De Brevitate Vitae. The phrase ‘modo modo intra paucos illos dies quibus C. Caesar periit …’ might suggest a date in the 40's. But, in a letter, lamenting the briefness of life, Seneca remarks on the distant events to which an old man's memory can apply modo: ‘Et tamen hoc “modo” aetatis nostrae bona portio est.’ Lipsius' theory collapses. His successors have supported other dates, principally two: 49, first proposed by Hirschfeld in 1870; 62, suggested by Dessau in 1918.
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