Sabiinus, Calvisius
4. Calvisius Sabinus, a wealthy contemporary of Seneca, was of servile origin, and, though ignorant, affected to be a man of learning (Sen. Ep. 27).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.