[171] ‘mors nos aut consumit aut exuit; ... consumptis nihil restat’ ib. 24, 18.
[172] See above, §§ [140] and [141].
[173] M. Aurel. To himself iv 21.
[174] See below, § [306]. Cleanthes wrote a book to show that ‘virtue is the same in men and women’; see Diog. L. vii 103.
[175] ‘quis dixit naturam maligne cum muliebribus ingeniis egisse, et virtutem illarum in artum retraxisse? par illis, mihi crede, vigor, par ad honesta, libeat, facultas est; dolorem laboremque ex aequo, si consuevere, patiuntur’ Sen. Dial. vi 16, 1.
[176] See below, §§ [431], [439], [444], [446].
[177] ‘muliebre est furere in ira’ Sen. Clem. i 5, 5; ‘[mulier] aeque imprudens [atque] animal est, et nisi scientia accessit et multa eruditio, ferum, cupiditatum incontinens’ Dial. ii 14, 1.
[178] ‘utraque turba [i.e. sexus] ad vitae societatem tantundem [confert], sed altera pars ad obsequendum, altera imperio nata [est]’ ib. 1, 1.