Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
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"<br />
Whatever<br />
"<br />
De Providentia<br />
ferred to, fixed the penalty for homicide <strong>and</strong> similar crimes*.<br />
It bore its author s gentile name.<br />
The familiar story <strong>of</strong> Regulus was accepted as true by<br />
the Romans, <strong>and</strong>, in fact, by the world generally, until recent<br />
times. It is interesting as showing the high estimate placed<br />
upon patriotism by the Romans from their point <strong>of</strong> view.<br />
Though narrow it was intense <strong>and</strong> played a conspicuous part<br />
in the growth <strong>of</strong> the Roman state.<br />
9. Maecenas the well-known Premier <strong>of</strong> the emperor Au<br />
gustus was passionately attached to his wife Terentia; but her<br />
fidelity was more than suspected, a condition <strong>of</strong> things that led<br />
to many quarrels with her husb<strong>and</strong>.<br />
11. The writer refers here to the disgusting practice <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Romans, who, at their feasts, frequently ate <strong>and</strong> drank to<br />
excess, then produced vomiting in order to be able to begin<br />
eating <strong>and</strong> drinking over again.<br />
12. Vatinius was a worthless fellow who defeated Cato in<br />
the contest for the praetorshipİV.<br />
12 The Romans were wilfully blind as to the climate <strong>and</strong><br />
soil <strong>of</strong> Germany.<br />
It was a case <strong>of</strong><br />
"<br />
sour grapes."<br />
After vainly<br />
endeavoring to conquer its inhabitants, they decided that they<br />
were not worth the trouble <strong>of</strong> conquest.<br />
V.<br />
6.<br />
it be etc. The First Cause, about which<br />
Seneca is in some doubt, whether it is personal or impersonal,<br />
material or immaterial; whether matter exists <strong>of</strong> necessity or<br />
is created. In 4 he uses imtndus in a personal sense. He is<br />
also inconsistent in his attitude toward suicide; for after assur<br />
ing us in the strongest language, that it is every man s duty<br />
to endure whatever Providence or Fate or Destiny or Chance<br />
sends upon him, he ends by telling him that if the service is<br />
too hard he is at perfect liberty to run away from it. Grard<br />
rightly says, confuses God with "He the world, Providence<br />
with destiny; he admits <strong>and</strong> does not admit the immortality<br />
<strong>of</strong> the soul; he proclaims the freedom <strong>of</strong> the will, <strong>and</strong> denies it.<br />
8. 9. Dr. Lodge, (1614) translates the two extracts from<br />
Ovid s Metamorphoses as follows:<br />
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