When Jove
Pours down his fiercest storms in wrath to men,
Who in their courts unrighteous judgments pass.
Then just as he introduces the gods caring for men, so he represents men as mindful of them in every crisis. As the leader, succeeding in an action, says (I. viii. 526):—
Hopeful to Jove I pray, and all the gods
To chase from hence these fate-inflicted hounds.
And in danger (I. xvii. 646):—
Father Jove, from o'er the sons of Greece,
Remove this cloudy darkness.
And again when one has slayed another (I. xxii. 379):—
Since heaven has granted us this man to slay.
And dying (I. xxii. 358):—
But see I bring not down upon thy head the wrath of heaven.
From what other place than here did originate that doctrine of the Stoics? I mean this, that the world is one and in it both gods and men minister, sharing in justice by their nature. For when he says (I. xx. 4):—