[141] ‘[Stoici] existimant animam hominis magno pondere extriti permanere non posse et statim spargi’ Sen. Ep. 57, 7; Seneca himself rejects this opinion.
[142] Κλεάνθης μὲν οὖν πάσας [τὰς ψυχὰς] ἐπιδιαμένειν μέχρι τῆς ἐκπυρώσεως, Χρύσιππος δὲ τὰς τῶν σοφῶν μόνον Diog. L. vii 157.
[143] ‘esse inferos Zenon docuit et sedes piorum ab impiis esse discretas; et illos quidem quietas ac delectabiles incolere regiones, hos vero luere poenas in tenebrosis locis atque in caeni voraginibus horrendis’ Lactant. Div. inst. vii 7, 13 (Arnim i 147); ‘reliquas animas ad inferos deiciunt’ Tert. de an. 54. Cf. Cic. fr. 240, 6.
[144] Pearson, Fragments, p. 146.
[145] So Hirzel, Untersuchungen ii p. 29 note.
[146] ‘et metus ille foras praeceps Acheruntis agendus, | funditus humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo, | omnia suffuscans mortis nigrore, neque ullam | esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit’ R. N. iii 37-40.
[147] Cic. Tusc. disp. i 16, 36.
[148] N. D. ii 2, 5.
[149] ‘cogita illa, quae nobis inferos faciunt terribiles, fabulam esse; nullas imminere mortuis tenebras nec carcerem nec flumina igne flagrantia nec oblivionis amnem nec tribunalia ... [nec] ullos iterum tyrannos. luserunt ista poetae et vanis nos agitavere terroribus’ Sen. Dial. vi 19, 4. Here we have the opposite extreme to the statement in note 131.
[150] Virgil Aen. vi 724-747 (transl. by Lord Bowen). For the corresponding description of Paradise, see ib. 638-644. The substance of this discussion is drawn from Hirzel’s full note in his Untersuchungen ii pp. 25-31.