[127] ‘[Calvisius Sabinus] magna summa emit servos, unum qui Homerum teneret, unum qui Hesiodum. novem praeterea lyricis singulos adsignavit. magno emisse illum non est quod mireris: non invenerat, faciendos locavit’ Ep. 27, 6.

[128] Epict. Disc. iv 1, 33 to 40.

[129] But hear Epictetus on the other side: ‘Are those men greater benefactors to mankind who introduce into the world to occupy their own places two or three grunting children, or those who superintend as far as they can all mankind? Did Priamus who begat fifty worthless sons contribute more to the community than Homer?’ Disc. iii 22, 77 and 78.

[130] Stob. iv 24, 15 (from Musonius).

[131] ib. 27, 21.

[132] See above, § [399].

[133] ‘compara inter se pauperum et divitum voltus; saepius pauper et fidelius ridet’ Sen. Ep. 80, 6.

[134] ‘etiam in obsessa via pauperi pax est’ ib. 14, 9.

[135] ‘si vis vacare animo, aut pauper sis oportet aut pauperi similis’ ib. 17, 5.

[136] ‘[paupertas] veros certosque amicos retinebit; discedet quisquis non te, sed aliud sequebatur. vel ob hoc unum amanda paupertas quod, a quibus ameris, ostendet’ ib. 20, 7.