Between Heathenism and Christianity: Being a translation of Seneca's De Providentia, and Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta, together with notes, additional extracts from these writers and two essays on Graeco-Roman life in the first century after Christ.Plutarch
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Between Heathenism and Christianity: Being a translation of Seneca's De Providentia, and Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta, together with notes, additional extracts from these writers and two essays on Graeco-Roman life in the first century after Christ.
Plutarch
Ethics -- Greece; Ethics -- History; Stoics
_De Iside et Osiride,_ (Concerning Isis and Osiris).
VOLUME III.
_De E apud Delphos_, (On the E at Delphi).
_De Pythia oraculis_, (On the cessation of the Pythian oracles in
meter).
_De defectu oraculorum_, (On the cessation of oracles).
_An virtus doceri possit_, (Can virtue be taught)?
_De virtute morali_, (On moral virtue).
_De cohibenda ira_, (On the control of the temper).
_De tranquillitate animi_, (On peace of mind).
_De fraterno amore_, (On fraternal love).
_De amore prolis_, (On the love of offspring).
_An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficiat_, (Does vice of itself
make men unhappy)?
_Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores_, (Are the sufferings
of the mind more grievous than those of the body)?
_De garrulitate_, (On talkativeness).
_De curiositate_, (On meddlesomness).
_De cupiditate divitiarum_, (On the love of riches).
_De vitioso pudore_, (On excess of modesty).
_De invidia et odio_, (Concerning envy and hatred).
_De se ipsum citra invidiam laudando_, (On praising one’s self
without reproach).
_De sera numinis vindicta_, (Concerning those whom God is slow to
punish).
_De fato_, (On fate).
_De genio Socratis_, (On the tutelary deity of Socrates).
_De exilio_, (On exile).
_Consolatio ad uxorem_, (A letter of condolence to his wife).
VOLUME IV.
_Questionum convivialium libri IX_, (Nine books of table-talk).
_Amatorius_, (A dialogue on love).
_Amatoriae narrationes_, (Love stories).
VOLUME V.
_Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum_, (On the
proposition that the philosopher ought chiefly to converse with
rulers).
_Ad principem ineruditum_, (To an uneducated ruler).
_An seni res publica gerenda sit_, (Should an old man hold a public
office)?
_Praecepta gerendae rei publicae_, (Political precepts).
_De unius in re publica dominatione, populari statu et paucorum
imperio_, (On monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy).
_De vitando aere alieno_, (On avoiding debts).
_X oratorum vitae_, (The lives of the ten orators).
_De comparatione Aristophanis et Menandri epitome_ (Abstract of a
comparison between Aristophanes and Menander).
_De Herodoti malignitate_, (On the malice of Herodotus).
_De placitis philosophorum libri V_, (Five books of maxims of the
philosophers).
_Aetia physica_, (Problems in physics).
_De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet_, (Concerning the face that
appears on the moon’s disk).
_De primo frigido_, (On the origin of cold).
VOLUME VI.
_Aquane an ignis sit utilior_, (Is fire or water the more useful)?
_Terrestriane an aquatilia animalia sint callidiora_, (Are water or
land animals the more cunning)?
_Bruta animalia ratione uti_, (On the use of reason by brutes).
_De esu carnium, orationes duo_, (On the eating of flesh, two
discourses).
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