Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

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De Providentia
with oysters from the Upper and the Lower sea? or if
he had encircled with a huge pile of
different fruits,
the finest game captured at the cost of many a hunts
man s life?
7. Is Rutilius unfortunate because those who con
demned him decided a case against themselves for all
time to come? because he was more willing to be de
prived of his country than to be recalled from exile?
because he alone dared to deny anything to the
dictator Sulla, and when invited to return, not only
refused, but fled farther? Let those manage affairs,"
said he, "whom thy good fortune keeps
them look upon the pool
in Rome! Let
of blood in the Forum and
the heads of senators floating on the Servilian lake,-
for that was the field of carnage of those proscribed
by Sulla and the bands of assassins roaming through
the city, and the many thousands of Roman citizens
slain in one place after pledges of immunity had
been given, yes, because of those very pledges!
those look upon these things who are not able to
Let
en
dure exile."
8. Shall we say that Sulla is to be congratulated
because, when he descends to the Forum, a way is
opened for him with the sword? because he allows
the heads of men of consular rank to be shown him
in public, and paid the price of their slaughter by the
hand of the quaestor and from the fisc? And Inwho
did these things is the same man that enacted
the Cornelian law! Let us return to Regulus. What
injury did his destiny do him by making him, the