[71] ‘mens immota manet; lacrimae volvuntur inanes’ Aen. iv 449; the ‘lacrimae inanes’ indicate the ruffling of the soul, in which the intelligence and will take no part.
[72] ‘est deus in nobis: agitante calescimus illo’ Ov. F. vi 5.
[73] ‘ante mare et terras, et quod tegit omnia caelum, | unus erat toto Naturae vultus in orbe, | quem dixere Chaos, etc.’ Met. i 5 to 88.
[74] ‘os homini sublime dedit, caelumque tueri | iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus’ ib. 85 and 86.
[75] ‘exclamavit Cordus tunc vere theatrum perire’ Sen. Dial. vi 22, 4.
[76] Tac. Ann. iv 34. Tacitus entirely ignores the personal motives underlying the story, and quite unnecessarily suggests that Tiberius was adopting the policy of repressing freedom of historical narration.
[77] ‘accusatores queruntur mori Cordum’ Sen. Dial. vi 22, 7.
[78] That Cremutius Cordus was a professed Stoic seems a fair inference from the story as a whole, and yet, as in several similar cases, is not expressly stated.
[79] ‘quem [Graecinum Iulium] C. Caesar occidit ob hoc unum, quod melior vir erat quam esse quemquam tyranno expedit’ Sen. Ben. ii 21, 5.
[80] Dial. ix 14, 4-10.