[175] ‘Catonis nobile letum’ Hor. C. i 12, 35 and 36; and see below, § [430].

[176] ‘nobis quoque militandum est’ Sen. Ep. 51, 6; ‘This is the true athlete. Great is the combat, divine is the work’ Epict. Disc. ii 18, 28. See also below, § [402].

[177] Euseb. pr. ev. vi 8, 13; Alex. Aph. de fato 28, p. 199, 16 B.

[178] Plut. Sto. rep. 31, 5.

[179] ‘qui sapiens sit aut fuerit, ne ipsi quidem solent dicere’ Cic. Ac. ii 47, 145. Thus Panaetius made no reference to the wise man; whilst Posidonius only defended his possible existence in the future (Schmekel, pp. 213, 278).

[180] Sext. math. ix 133.

[181] See above, § [214].

[182] Even if Cicero is not the creator of the conception of an ‘ideal character,’ nowhere else can we find its meaning so clearly expressed. So of the wise man; ‘iste vir altus et excellens, magno animo, vere fortis, infra se omnia humana ducens, is, inquam, quem efficere volumus, quem quaerimus certe, et confidere sibi debet, et suae vitae et actae et consequenti, et bene de se iudicare’ Fin. iii 8, 29.

[183] ‘non est quod dicas hunc sapientem nostrum nusquam inveniri’ Sen. Dial. ii 7, 1.

[184] ‘ille alter [sapiens primae notae] fortasse tanquam phoenix semel anno quingentesimo nascitur’ Ep. 42, 1, cf. Alex. Aphr. p. 34, n. 2; ‘scit [sapiens] paucissimos omni aevo sapientes evadere’ Sen. Dial. iv 10, 6.