Roman Stoicism / being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire

by Edward Vernon Arnold

[71] Dial. ii 17, 1.

[72] ‘[Vatinius] in pedes suos ipse plurima dicebat et in fauces concisas. sic inimicorum et in primis Ciceronis urbanitatem effugerat’ Sen. Dial. ii 17, 3; ‘nemo risum praebuit qui ex se cepit’ ib. 2.

[73] ‘cum primum te observare desieris, imago ista tristitiae discedet’ Ep. 63, 3.

[74] Cicero wrote a treatise ‘de Consolatione’ based on this work, but only a few fragments remain. Plutarch’s ‘Consolation’ for Apollonius was drawn from the same source (Schmekel, p. 150).

[75] Cic. Fam. iv 5.

[76] ‘denique noli te oblivisci Ciceronem esse, et eum qui aliis consueris praecipere et dare consilium’ ib. 5, 5.

[77] ‘maximum ergo solatium est cogitare id sibi accidisse, quod ante se passi sunt omnes omnesque passuri’ Sen. Dial. xi 1, 4. On the other side ‘malevoli solatii est turba miserorum’ ib. vi 12, 5; ‘[cogita] fratribus te tuis exemplo esse debere’ ib. xi 5, 4.

[78] ib. 8, 2.

[79] ib. 9, 3; ‘inter felices currit animas’ ib. vi 5, 1.

[80] ib. xi 9, 4; ‘excepit illum magna et aeterna pax’ ib. vi 19, 6. See also above, §§ [298], [299].