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Seneca

1. Lucius Annaeus , called the Younger. ?4 bc--65 ad, Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist; tutor and adviser to Nero. He was implicated in a plot to murder Nero and committed suicide. His works include Stoical essays on ethical subjects and tragedies that had a considerable influence on Elizabethan drama
2. his father, Marcus or Lucius Annaeus, called the Elder or the Rhetorician. ?55 bc--?39 ad, Roman writer on oratory and history
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Seneca

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Seneca

 

a tribe of North American Indians; one of the Iroquois tribes. The American ethnologist L. H. Morgan was adopted into the Seneca tribe.

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In April, the arbitration panel ordered the Senecas to pay the state $255 million in back payments dating to 2017 but not a dime of that money has flowed to the state and none appears to be coming anytime soon.
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