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[1] Lightfoot, Philippians, p. 319; Dill, Roman Society, p. 334; Warde Fowler, Social Life at Rome, p. 27.
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[2] The practice of street-preaching, as described by Horace and Epictetus, points this way; and the world-wide diffusion of Stoicism, in more or less diluted forms, is hardly reconcileable with its restriction to a single class of society.
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[3] ‘semper Africanus Socraticum Xenophontem in manibus habebat’ Cic. Tusc. disp. ii 26, 62; ‘Cyrus ille a Xenophonte ad effigiem iusti imperi scriptus ... quos quidem libros Africanus de manibus ponere non solebat’ ad Quint. I i 8, 23.
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[4] ‘ille [Laelius] qui Diogenem Stoicum adulescens, post autem Panaetium audierat’ Fin. ii 8, 24.
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[5] ‘lenitatem Laelius habuit’ Cic. de Or. iii 7, 28; ‘C. Laelius et P. Africanus imprimis eloquentes’ Brut. 21, 82.
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[6] ‘in C. Laelio multa hilaritas’ Off. i 30, 108.
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[7] ‘praeclara est aequabilitas in omni vita et idem semper vultus eademque frons, ut de Socrate itemque de C. Laelio accepimus’ ib. 26, 90.
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[9] ‘Sp. [Mummius] nihilo ornatior, sed tamen astrictior; fuit enim doctus ex disciplina Stoicorum’ Cic. Brut. 25, 94.
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[10] ‘non tulit ullos haec civitas humanitate politiores P. Africano, C. Laelio, L. Furio, qui secum eruditissimos homines ex Graecia palam semper habuerunt’ de Or. ii 37, 154.
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[12] ‘Ti. Gracchum a Q. Tuberone aequalibusque amicis derelictum videbamus’ ib.
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[14] ‘quoniam Stoicorum est facta mentio, Q. Aelius Tubero fuit illo tempore, nullo in oratorum numero, sed vita severus et congruens cum ea disciplina quam colebat’ Brut. 31, 117.
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[15]Fin. iv 9, 23; Off. iii 15, 63.
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[16] ‘Panaetii illius tui’ Cic. de Or. i 11, 45; ‘[Mucius augur] oratorum in numero non fuit: iuris civilis intellegentia atque omni prudentiae genere praestitit’ Brut. 26, 102.
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[17] ‘C. Fannius, C. Laeli gener, ... instituto Laelii Panaetium audiverat. eius omnis in dicendo facultas ex historia ipsius non ineleganter scripta perspici potest’ ib. 101.
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[18] Schmekel, Mittlere Stoa, pp. 444, 445.
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[19] See especially his praise of virtue, beginning ‘virtus, Albine, est pretium persolvere verum | queis in versamur, queis vivimu’ rebu’ potesse’ fr. 1.
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[20] ‘primum genus [poëticum] nugatorium dicit [Scaevola] esse, quod multa de dis fingantur indigna’ Aug. Civ. De. iv 27, on the authority of Varro.
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[21] ‘tertium genus’ inquit Varro ‘quod in urbibus cives, maxime sacerdotes, nosse atque administrare debent’ Aug. Civ. De. vi 5.
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[22] ‘maior societas nobis debet esse cum philosophis quam cum poetis’ ib. 6.
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[23] ‘ego habeo [exceptionem] tectiorem ex Q. Mucii P. F. edicto Asiatico; extra quam si ita negotium gestum est, ut eo stari non oporteat ex fide bona; multaque sum secutus Scaevolae’ Cic. Att. vi 1, 15.
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[24] ‘hanc gloriam iustitiae et abstinentiae fore inlustriorem spero. quod Scaevolae contigit’ ib. v 17, 5.
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[26] ‘dixit causam illam quadam ex parte Q. Mucius, more suo, nullo adparatu, pure et dilucide’ Cic. de Or. i 53, 229; ‘Scaevola parcorum elegantissimus’ Brut. 40, 148.
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[27] ‘Q. Mucius pontifex maximus ius civile primus constituit, generatim in libros xviii redigendo’ Pompon. Dig. i 2, 2, 41.
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[28] H. Nettleship, Ius Gentium (Journal of Philology xiii 26, pp. 169 sqq.).
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[29] ‘qui iuris civilis rationem nunquam ab aequitate seiunxerit’ Cic. Caec. 27, 78.
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[30] ‘cum discendi causa duobus peritissimis operam dedisset, L. Lucilio Balbo et C. Aquilio Gallo’ Brut. 42, 154; cf. de Orat. iii 21, 78.
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[31] ‘Servius [mihi videtur] eloquentiae tantum assumpsisse, ut ius civile facile possit tueri’ Brut. 40, 150.
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[32] ‘[Servius] longe omnium in iure civili princeps’ ib. 41, 151: Pomp. Dig. i 2, 2, 43.
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[33] For an interesting account of his career and death see Warde Fowler, Social Life at Rome, pp. 118-121.
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[34] ‘idem Aelius Stoicus esse voluit’ Cic. Brutus 56, 206.
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[35] ‘Q. Lucilius Balbus tantos progressus habebat in Stoicis, ut cum excellentibus in eo genere Graecis compararetur’ N. D. i 6, 15.
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[36] ‘Sextus frater praestantissimum ingenium contulerat ad summam iuris civilis et rerum Stoicarum scientiam’ Brutus 47, 175.
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[38] ‘Posidonius scribit P. Rutilium dicere solere, quae Panaetius praetermisisset, propter eorum quae fecisset praestantiam neminem esse persecutum’ Cic. Off. iii 2, 10.
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[39] ‘[P. Rutilius], doctus vir et Graecis litteris eruditus, prope perfectus in Stoicis’ Brutus 30, 114.
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[40] ‘multa praeclara de iure’ ib.

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Roman Stoicism being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire, Project Gutenberg eBook #64488

CHAPTER XVI. STOICISM IN ROMAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE. CHAPTER XVII. THE STOIC STRAIN IN CHRISTIANITY.