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

[91] See above, § [242], note 9.

[92] Phars. ix 573 and 574.

[93] ib. 556 and 557.

[94] ib. 601 to 604. The force of this tribute is impaired by the similar praise given to Pompey (Phars. vii 682-689) and to Brutus (ib. 588 and 589).

[95] ‘quale coronati Thrasea Helvidiusque bibebant | Brutorum et Cassi natalibus’ Juv. Sat. v 36 and 37. See also G. Boissier, L’Opposition sous les Césars.

[96] Henderson’s Nero, pp. 90 sqq.

[97] Annals xiv 42, 2.

[97a] The government had in fact appointed an officer for the prevention of cruelty to slaves: ‘de iniuriis dominorum in servos qui audiat positus est, qui et saevitiam et libidinem et in praebendis ad victum necessariis avaritiam compescat’ Sen. Ben. iii 22, 3.

[98] Tac. Ann. xiv 57.

[99] See Henderson’s Nero, pp. 257-283.