[121] See above, §§ [428], [429].
[122] Renan, Marc-Aurèle, pp. 22, 23; cf. Maine, Ancient Law, pp. 55, 56.
[123] Renan, Marc-Aurèle, p. 30.
[124] Aulus Gellius N. A. i 2, 3 to 5.
[125] ‘nam de illis nemo dubitabit, quin operose nihil agant, qui litterarum inutilium studiis detinentur, quae iam apud Romanos quoque magna manus est ... ecce Romanos quoque invasit inane studium supervacua discendi,’ etc. Sen. Dial. x 13, 1 and 3. The condemnation extends to the whole study of history, N. Q. iii Pr.
[126] ‘In the purely moral sphere to which philosophy was now confined, the natural tendency of the different schools, not even excluding the Epicurean, was to assimilation and eclecticism’ Dill, Roman Society, p. 343.
[127] Rendall, M. Aurelius to himself, Introd. pp. cxxvii, cxxviii.
[128] The connexion (if any) of Gallio the proconsul of Achaia (Acts xviii 12) with the Junius Gallio who adopted Seneca’s elder brother is uncertain.
[129] Renan, Marc-Aurèle, p. 55, note 2.