D. iii, 22. Lucian says Epictetus urged Demonax to take a wife and leave some one to represent him in posterity. "Very well, Epictetus," said Demonax, "give me one of your own daughters" (v. Demon. 55).
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Epict. D. iii, 24. strateía tís estin ho bios hekástou, kaì aute makrà kai toikile. tereîn se deî tò stratiôtou prosneuma kaì toû strategoû prássein hekasta, ei oîon..
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Epict. D. iii, 23.
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Sen. Ep. 112, 3.
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de ira, iii, 36, 1-4.
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Sen. de tranqu. animi, 1.
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Epict. D. iii, 10. I have here slightly altered Mr Long's rendering.
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D. iv, 6.
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Cf. Persius, iii, 66-72, causas cognoscite rerum, quid sumus aut quidnam victuri gignimur … quem te deus esse iussit et humana qua parte locatus es in re.
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D. ii, 11. See Davidson, Stoic Creed, pp. 69, 81, on innate ideas. Plutarch, de coh. ira, 15, on Zeno's doctrine, tò spérma súmmigma kaì kèrasma tôn tés phuchês dynaméon hyparchein apespasménon.
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The qualification may be illustrated from Cicero's Stoic, de Nat. Deor, ii, 66, 167, Magna di curant parva neglegunt.
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Ep. 95, 47-50. Cf. Ep. 41; de Prov. i, 5. A very close parallel, with a strong Stoic tinge, in Minucius Felix, 32, 2, 3, ending Sic apud nos religiosior est ille qui iustior.
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Nat. Quæst. ii, 45. Cf. Tertullian, Apol. 21, on Zeno's testimony to the Logos, as creator, fate, God, animus Iovis and necessitas omnium rerum.
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Cf. Sen. Ep. 41, 1. Prope est a te deus, tecum est, intus est. Ita dico, Lucili, sacer intra nos spiritus sedet malorum bonorumque nostrorum observator et custos.
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Epict. D. i, 14. See Clem. Alex. Strom, vii, 37, for an interesting account of how phthánei he theía dynamis, katháper phôs diidein tèn phychen.
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Ep. 110, 1, pædagogam dari deum.
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D. iii, 24,
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D. ii, 14.
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de providentia, 2, 6-9.
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de Prov. 4, 1.
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de Prov. 5, 7. See Justin Martyr's criticism of Stoic fatalism, Apol. ii, 7. It involves, he says, either God's identity with the world of change, or his implication in all vice, or else that virtue and vice are nothing – consequences which are alike contrary to every sane eeenoia, to logos and to noûs.
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de Prov. 5, 8.
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Plutarch, adv. Stoicos, 33, on this Stoic paradox of the equality of God and the sage.
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de Prov. 6, 5-7. This Stoic justification of suicide was repudiated alike by Christians and Neo-Platonists.
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D. i, 1.
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D. i, 12. See also D. ii, 16 "We say 'Lord God! how shall I not be anxious?' Fool, have you not hands, did not God make them for you? Sit down now and pray that your nose may not run."
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Cf. Cicero's Stoic, N.D. ii, 66, 167, Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.
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Ep. 41, 1, 2. (The line is from Virgil, Aen. viii, 352.) The rest of the letter develops the idea of divine dependence. Sic animus magnus ac sacer et in hoc demissus at propius quidem divina nossemus, conversatur quidem nobiscum sed hæret origini suæ, etc.
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Ep. 73, 15, 16.
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Epictetus, D. i, 6.
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D. i, 9.
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D. iv, 1.
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D. iv, 1.
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D. ii, 16 end, with a variant between sós eimi and ísos eimi, the former of which, Long says, is certain.
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D. i, 16. Contrast the passage of Clement quoted on p. 286.
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D. ii, 16.
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D. ii, 16.
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D. iii, 13.
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D. ii, 22.
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Ep. 95, 51-53.
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de ira, iii, 28, 1.
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Ep. 95, 33, homo sacra res homini.
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See Lecky, European Morals, i, 294 ff.: Maine, Ancient Law, p. 54 f.
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See, by the way, Plutarch's banter on this "polity" – the stars its tribesmen, the sun, doubtless, councillor, and Hesperus prytanis or astynomus, adv. Sto. 34.
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Epict. D. ii, 5; M. Aurelius, viii, 34.
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Ep. 63, 14.
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D. iii, 24.
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D. iv, 1.
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ib.
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D. iv, 6.
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M. 16.
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Cf. Theophilus (the apologist of about 160 A.D.), ii, 4, who, though not always to be trusted as to the Stoics, remarks this identification of God and conscience.
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D. i, 29.
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Cf. D. i, 1; iii, 19; iv, 4; iv, 12, and very many other passages.
