[56]. Diss. B. IV. c. 6.

[57]. Diss. B. III. c. 13.

[58]. Eἴπερ ὁ θεὸς ἀρετὴν μὲν οὐ δίδωσιν ἀνθρώποις· ἀλλὰ τὸ καλὸν αὐθαίρετόν ἐστι· πλοῦτον δὲ καὶ ὑγίειαν χωρὶς ἀρετῆς δίδωσιν οὐκ ὠφελεῖ. Plut. de Stoic. cont. c. 27.

[59]. “Idem fere, aliis verbis, Apostolus ad Thessal. Εp. I. c. 5. v. 23,” &c.—Gat. not. in M. Ant. B. II. c. 2.

[60]. M. Aur. Com. x. 1.

[61]. Rom. ii. 11.

[62]. St John, xvii. 15.

[63]. M. Aurelius uses the very word from which the anchorite took his name, Ἀναχωρήσεις αὐτοῖς ζητοῦσιν, κ.τ.λ.—B. IV. c. 3.

[64]. Juvenal, in reference to this says, Sat. II. 8:

“Frontis nulla fides, quis enim non vicus abundat