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

[17] ‘panis deinde siccus et sine mensa prandium’ ib. 6.

[18] ‘brevissimo somno utor et quasi interiungo. satis est mihi vigilare desiisse. aliquando dormisse me scio, aliquando suspicor’ ib.

[19] ‘nec scribere tantum nec tantum legere debemus; altera res contristabit, vires exhauriet (de stilo dico), altera solvet ac diluet’ Sen. Ep. 84, 2.

[20] ‘nulli enim nisi audituro dicendum est’ ib. 29, 1.

[21] ‘[Diogenes et alii Cynici] libertate promiscua usi sunt et obvios monuerunt. hoc, mi Lucili, non existimo magno viro faciendum’ ib. 29, 1 and 3.

[22] ‘audebo illi mala sua ostendere’ ib. 4.

[23] A. Gellius, N. A. xii 1. Favorinus, of whom this is related, was not himself a Stoic.

[24] Sen. Ben. ii 17, 3 to 5 and 32, 1 to 4.

[25] See above, § [125], note 90.

[26] ‘at te nocturnis iuvat impallescere chartis; | cultor enim iuvenum purgatas inseris aures | fruge Cleanthea’ Pers. Sat. v 62-64; ‘quid est tamen, quare tu istas Epicuri voces putes esse, non publicas?’ Sen. Ep. 8, 8.