[165] ‘By acting thus Heraclitus and those like him were deservedly divine, and were so called’ Epict. Manual 15.

[166] ‘praeclara est aequabilitas in omni vita, et idem semper vultus eademque frons, ut de Socrate accepimus’ Cic. Off. i 26, 90; ‘Socrates ... violated nothing which was becoming to a good man, neither in making his defence nor by fixing a penalty on himself; nor even in the former part of his life when he was a senator or when he was a soldier’ Epict. Disc. iii 24, 61.

[167] See above, § [17].

[168] ‘si quis de felicitate Diogenis dubitat, potest idem dubitare et de deorum immortalium statu’ Sen. Dial. ix 8, 5; ‘By acting thus Diogenes ... was deservedly divine, and was so called’ Epict. Manual 15.

[169] See above, § [306], note 25.

[170] δεύτερος Ἡρακλῆς ὁ Κλεάνθης ἐκαλεῖτο Diog. L. vii 170; ‘Learn how those live who are genuine philosophers: how Socrates lived, who had a wife and children; how Diogenes lived, and how Cleanthes, who attended to the school and drew water’ Epict. Disc. iii 26, 23.

[171] ‘aut Cato ille sit aut Scipio aut Laelius’ Sen. Ep. 25, 6; ‘elige remissioris animi virum Laelium’ ib. 11, 10.

[172] ‘nam cum esset ille vir [P. Rutilius Rufus] exemplum, ut scitis, innocentiae, cumque illo nemo neque integrior esset in civitate neque sanctior, non modo supplex iudicibus esse noluit, sed ne ornatius quidem aut liberius causam dici suam, quam simplex ratio veritatis ferebat’ Cic. de Or. i 53, 229; cf. Sen. Dial. i 3, 4 and 7; and see further, § [430].

[173] ‘Catonem certius exemplar sapientis viri nobis deos immortales dedisse quam Ulixen et Herculem prioribus saeculis’ Sen. Dial. ii 2, 1.

[174] ‘ego te [Cato] verissime dixerim peccare nihil’ Cic. Mur. 29, 60.