[99] Friedländer, Römische Sittengeschichte, I., 463; Duruy, Histoire des Romains, V., 349 ff., 370; cf. Gaston Boissier, La Religion Romaine, II., 152 ff., 212 ff.
[100] This idea is most distinctly expressed by Marcus Aurelius, II., 1, and VII., 13.
[101] For the authorities, see Zeller, p. 176.
[102] See especially Seneca, Epp., lxiv., and the whole treatise De Providentiâ.
[103] See, inter alia, Comm., IV., 3; VI., 15, 37; VII., 21, 49; XI., 1; XII., 7, 21, 23, 24, 26, 31, 32.
[104] Comm., XI., 28, xii. 14. A modern disciple of Aurelius has expressed himself to the same purpose in slightly different language:—
‘Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man,
How angrily thou spurn’st all simpler fare!
“Christ,” some one says, “was human as we are.
No judge eyes us from heaven our sin to scan;