when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch,A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death,A chorus-ending from Euripides —And that's enough for fifty hopes and fearsAs old and new at once as nature's self,To rap and knock and enter in our soul,Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring,Round the ancient idol, on his base again, —The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly.
96
Lucr. iii, 53.
97
Seneca, Ep. 95, 33.
98
Hist. i, 2.
99
Tac. Ann. iv, 33, sic converso statu neque alia re Romana quam si unus imperitet.
100
Hdt. iii, 80. Cf. Tac. A. vi, 48, 4, vi dominationis convulsus et mutatus.
101
Suetonius, Gaius, 29.
102
Sen. de ira, iii, 15, 3.
103
Lecky, European Morals, i, 275; Epictetus, D. iii, 15.
104
Seneca, Ep. 90, 36-43.
105
Tacitus, Germany, cc. 18-20.
106
Tac. A. i, 72. Suetonius (Tib. 59) quotes specimens.
107
See Boissier, Tacite, 188 f.; l'opposition sous les Cesars, 208-215.
108
Persius, v, 73, libertate opus est.
109
Horace, Sat. ii, 2, 79.
110
See Edward Caird, Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, vol. ii, lectures xvii to xx, and Zeller, Eclectics, pp. 235-245. Seneca, B.V. 20, 3.
111
Epictetus, D. ii, 8, su apóspasma eî tou theoû.
112
Lucan, ix, 564-586, contains a short summary of Stoicism, supposed to be spoken by Cato.
113
Epictetus, D. i, 9 (some lines omitted).
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phantasíai, impressions left on the mind by things or events.
115
Epictetus, D. i, 9.
116
Diogenes Laertius, vii, 1, 53; see Caird, op. cit. vol. ii, p. 124.
117
See Lecky, European Morals, i, 128, 129.
118
Ep. 108, 22, philosophiam oderat.
119
With these passages compare the fine account which Persius gives (Sat. v) of his early studies with the Stoic Cornutus.
120
Plutarch, de esu carnium, ii, 5.
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Plutarch, de esu carnium, i, 6, on clogging the soul by eating flesh. Clem. Alex. Pæd. ii, 16, says St Matthew lived on seeds, nuts and vegetables, and without meat.
122
Plutarch, de esu carnium, ii, 1.
123
Sen. Ep. 108, 3, 13-23.
124
This is a quality that Quintilian notes in his style for praise or blame. Others (Gellius, N.A. xii, 2) found in him levis et quasi dicax argutia.
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Ep. 78, 2, 3, patris me indulgentissimi senectus retinuit.
126
Ep. 58, 5.
127
Ep. 95, 65
128
His nephew Lucan, Quintilian severely says, was "perhaps a better model for orators than for poets."
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Ep. 49, 2. Virgil made one speech.
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ad Polybium, 13, 2, 3.
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Juvenal, x, 16, magnos Seneca prædivitis hortos.
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Ann. xiii, 12, 2.
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Tac. Ann. xiii, 15-17.
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Tac. Ann. xiv, 51.
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Tac. Ann. xiii, 42.
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B.V. 20, 3.
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B.V. 23, 1.
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Tac. Ann. xiv, 52-56.
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de tranqu. animi, 10, 6.
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Tac. Ann. xiv, 65; xv, 45-65.
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B. W. Henderson, Nero, pp. 280-3.
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Tac. Ann. xv, 65; Juvenal, viii, 212.
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Tac. Ann. xv, 45, 6.
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This is emphasized by Zeller, Eclectics, 240, and by Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus, 324, 326.
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ae Clem. i, 6.
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[Transcriber's note: this footnote missing from book]
147
Ep. 61, 1.
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Lucian, Nigrinus, 19, says there is no better school for virtue, no truer test of moral strength, than life in the city of Rome.
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Gellius, N.A. ii, 18, 10.
150
Gell. N.A. xv, 11, 5.
151
Manual, J. I have constantly used Long's translation, but often altered it. It is a fine piece of work, well worth the English reader's study.
152
D. iii, 26. Compare and contrast Tertullian, de Idol, 12, fides famem nan timet. Scit enim famem non minus sibi contemnendam propter Deum quam omne mortis genus. The practical point is the same, perhaps; the motive, how different!
153
D. iii, 24; iv, 1; M. 11, 26.
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D. ii, 24. He maintains, too, against Epicurus the naturalness of love for children; once born, we cannot help loving them, D. i, 23.
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D. iv, 1.
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D. iv, 5, thélei tà allótrie mè eînai allótria.
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D. i, 18. This does not stop his condemning the adulterer, D. ii, 4 (man, he said, is formed for fidelity), 10. Seneca on outward goods, ad Marciam, 10.
