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

[1] Lightfoot, Philippians, p. 319; Dill, Roman Society, p. 334; Warde Fowler, Social Life at Rome, p. 27.

[2] The practice of street-preaching, as described by Horace and Epictetus, points this way; and the world-wide diffusion of Stoicism, in more or less diluted forms, is hardly reconcileable with its restriction to a single class of society.

[3] ‘semper Africanus Socraticum Xenophontem in manibus habebat’ Cic. Tusc. disp. ii 26, 62; ‘Cyrus ille a Xenophonte ad effigiem iusti imperi scriptus ... quos quidem libros Africanus de manibus ponere non solebat’ ad Quint. I i 8, 23.

[4] ‘ille [Laelius] qui Diogenem Stoicum adulescens, post autem Panaetium audierat’ Fin. ii 8, 24.

[5] ‘lenitatem Laelius habuit’ Cic. de Or. iii 7, 28; ‘C. Laelius et P. Africanus imprimis eloquentes’ Brut. 21, 82.

[6] ‘in C. Laelio multa hilaritas’ Off. i 30, 108.

[7] ‘praeclara est aequabilitas in omni vita et idem semper vultus eademque frons, ut de Socrate itemque de C. Laelio accepimus’ ib. 26, 90.

[8] See above, § [326].

[9] ‘Sp. [Mummius] nihilo ornatior, sed tamen astrictior; fuit enim doctus ex disciplina Stoicorum’ Cic. Brut. 25, 94.

[10] ‘non tulit ullos haec civitas humanitate politiores P. Africano, C. Laelio, L. Furio, qui secum eruditissimos homines ex Graecia palam semper habuerunt’ de Or. ii 37, 154.