Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

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For
De Providentia
found in almost any encyclopedia. The notes are
placed by themselves so as not to interrupt the
reader, who may omit them,
I.
if he chooses.
2. It was held by some of the Greek philosophers, nota
bly Epicurus, that the universe was built up by a fortuitous
concourse of atoms.
4. Some texts have quaeris, you are seeking information.
6. Vernae were slaves born in the household of their mas
ters, sometimes his own children by a female slave. The
licentia vernularum was proverbial in Rome. The vernae and
vernulae were allowed privileges not accorded to slaves ob
tained by purchase.
II.
In suum colorem, to its colors. The parties represented in
the racecourse were distinguished by different colors. The
significance of the expression is therefore evident. Another
less probable explanation of the passage is that the author
has reference to the effect of red wine when mixed with li
quids of another color.
3. As the holidays in Rome were very numerous ranch
time was lost by those who spent all of them in idleness.
7. Cato, surnamed Uticensis, is here meant. He was the
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patron saint of the Roman Stoics.
9. The sentence here translated, For death, etc., may
also mean,
it requires less courage to meet death (once)
than to seek it a second time."
III.
6. The wild boar roasted whole was generally placed on the
center of the table. Around it were piled fruits, vegetables,
etc.
7. Tua felicitas. Sulla called himself FELIX, and in the
next section we find this epithet applied to him. The atroci
ties he committed are familiar to
tory.
every reader of Roman his
8. The Cornelian law. The Roman Legal Code was greatly
modified under the inspiration of Sulla.
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The statute here re-