Plutarch, Progress in Virtue, c. 2, 76 A, on the absurdity of there being no difference between Plato and Meletus. Cf. also de repugn. Stoic. 11, 1037 D.
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"Unconditional eradication," says Zeller, Eclectics, p. 226. "I do not hold with those who hymn the savage and hard Apathy (tén agrion kaì skleràn)," wrote Plutarch. Cons, ad Apoll. 3, 102 C. See Clem. Alex. Str. ii, 110, on páthê; as produced by the agency of spirits, and note his talk of Christian Apathy. Str. vi, 71-76.
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Justin Martyr (Apol. ii, 8) praises Stoic morality and speaks of Stoics who suffered for it.
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Cf. Epict. D. iii, 25.
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Sen. Ep. 50, 4.
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Persius, iii, 38.
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Ep. 6, 1.
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e. g. Ep. 57, 3, he is not even homo tolerabilis. On the bondage of the soul within the body, see Ep. 65, 21-23.
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Cf. Seneca, Ep. 53, 7, 8 – quo quis peius habet minus sentit. "The worse one is, the less he notices it."
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D. i, 5.
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Plut. de repugn. Stoic. 34, 105 °C. Cf. Tert. de exh. castit. 2.
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Cf. Plutarch, non suaviter, 1104 F. kataphronoûntes eautôn ôs ephêmérôn kthe– of the Epicureans.
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Cf. Plutarch, non suaviter, 1104 C. tês aidiótetus elpìs kaì ho póthos tou eînai mántôn epótôn prespytatos ôn kaì melstos. Cf. ib. 1093 A.
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Sen. Ep. 117, 6.
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Ep. 102, 2.
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Ep. 102, 21; the following passages are from the same letter. Note the Stoic significance of naturale.
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Compare Cons. ad Marc. 25, 1, integer ille, etc.
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The last words of the "Consolation." Plutarch on resolution into pûr noeròn, non suaviter, 1107 B.
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ad Polyb. 9, 3.
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D. iii, 13. Plutarch (non suaviter, 1106 E) says Cocytus, etc., are not the chief terror but hê toû mè ontos apeilé.
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D. iii, 24.
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See Plutarch on this, non suaviter, 1105 E.
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Seneca, N.Q. ii, 45.
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Manual, 31. Plutarch, de repugn. Stoic. 6, 1034 B, C, remarks on Stoic inconsistency in accepting popular religious usages.
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D. ii, 9. In D. v, 7, he refers to "Galilaeans," so that it is quite possible he has Christians in view here.
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M. 32; D. iii, 22.
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Plut. de repugn. Stoic. 37, 1051 C.
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Tertullian, Apol. 12, idem estis qui Senecam aliquem pluribus et amarioribus de vestra superstitione perorantem reprehendistis.
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See Plutarch, de comm. not. adv. Stoicos, c. 31, and de def. orac. 420 A, c. 19; Justin M. Apol. ii, 7.
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Dial. c. Tryphone, 2.
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Sen. Ep. 11, 8.
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Ep. 25, 5.
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Ep. 62, 2, cf. 104, 21.
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M. 33, tì nan epoíesen en toútô Sôkrates hè Zénôn.
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M. 50.
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D. ii, 18. The tone of Tertullian, e. g. in de Anima, 1, on the Phædo, suggests that Socrates may have been over-preached. What too (ib. 6) of barbarians and their souls, who have no "prison of Socrates," etc?
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Plut. de Stoic. repugnantiis, 31, 1048 E. Cf. de comm. not. 33.
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Plutarch, Amat. 13, 757 C. horâs dépou tòn upolambánonta búthon hemâs atheótetos, an eis pathe kaì dynameis kaì aretàs diagraphômen ekaston tôn theôn.
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Amatorius, 13, 756 A, D; 757 B. The quotation is from Euripides, Bacchæ, 203.
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Non suaviter, 21, 1101 E-1102 A.
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de Iside, 68, 378 A.
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de def. orac. 8, 414 A.
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Mahaffy, Silver Age of Greek World, p. 45.
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Horace is the best known of Athenian students. The delightful letters of Synesius show the hold Athens still retained upon a very changed world in 400 A.D.
