[[43]] Stapfer, Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity (tr.), p. 299. "It may be safely said he followed Plutarch far more closely than he did even the old English chroniclers."

[[44]] Cons. ad Ux. 2-3, 608 C, D.

[[45]] Cons. ad Ux. 11, 612 A, B. Cf. non suaviter, 26, 1104 C, on the loss of a child or a parent.

[[46]] de coh. ira. 11, 459 C; cf. Progress in Virtue, 80 B, 81 C, on epieíkeia and praotês as signs of moral progress.

[[47]] Cf. Sen. Ep. 47; Clem. Alex. Pæd. iii, 92.

[[48]] A curious parallel to this in Tert. de Patientia, 15, where Tertullian draws the portrait of Patience—perhaps from life, as Dean Robinson suggests—after Perpetua the martyr.

[[49]] Gellius, N.A. i, 26.

[[50]] Solon, 32.

[[51]] Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, iv, 72. On this author see chapter vii.

[[52]] See non suaviter, 17, 1098 D, on the unspeakably rich joy of such a life of friendly relations with gods and men.