[102] How capable Seneca was of continuous exposition we may gather from his excellent discussion of the ‘causes’ of Aristotle and Plato, in _Epistle_ 65: see below. [103] ‘non quia mihi legem dixerim nihil contra dictum Zenonis Chrysippive committere, sed quia res ipsa patitur me ire in illorum sententiam’ Sen. _Dial._ viii 3, 1; ‘nostram [opinionem] accipe. nostram autem cum dico, non adligo me ad unum aliquem ex Stoicis proceribus. est et mihi censendi ius’ _ib._ vii 3, 2. [104] ‘si omnia argumenta ad obrussam coeperimus exigere, silentium indicetur; pauca enim admodum sunt sine adversario’ Sen. _N. Q._ iv 5, 1. [105] ‘non tempero mihi, quominus omnes nostrorum ineptias proferam’ _ib._ iv 6, 1. [106] See the notes to § 177. [107] ‘si hominem videris interritum periculis, intactum cupiditatibus, inter adversa felicem, in mediis tempestatibus placidum, ex superiore loco homines videntem, ex aequo deos, non subibit te eius veneratio? ... non potest res tanta sine adminiculo numinis stare’ _Ep._ 41, 4 and 5. [108] See below, § 209, note 112. [109] ‘idem facit sapiens; nocituram potentiam vitat, hoc primum cavens, ne cavere videatur’ _Ep._ 14, 8; ‘circumspiciendum ergo nobis est, quomodo a vulgo tuti esse possimus’ _ib._ 9. [110] A. Gellius, _N. A._ v 1, 3 and 4. [111] Epict. _Disc._ iii 23, 29. [112] Stob. iii 1, 48. [113] _ib._ 5, 21. [114] Specimens are given below, especially in ch. xv. [115] Tac. _Ann._ xiv 59; Henderson, _Nero_, p. 143. [116] Tac. _Ann._ xv 71. [117] _Hist._ iii 81. [118] ‘reipublicae haud dubie intererat Vitellium vinci’ _ib._ 86. [119] See below, § 447. [120] _Disc._ iii 15, 8; _Manual_ 29. [121] Pliny, _Ep._ i 10. [122] ‘quid nostra memoria Euphrates, Dio, Timocrates, Athenodotus? quid horum magister Musonius? nonne summa facundia praediti, neque minus sapientiae quam eloquentiae gloria incluti extiterunt?’ Fronto, _Ep. ad Aur._ i 1 (Naber, p. 115). [123] See _Leben und Werke Dion’s von Prusa_, by H. von Arnim. Berlin, 1898. [124] See below, § 216. [125] See the story of Epicharis in connexion with the conspiracy of Piso, in Tac. _Ann._ xv 57. [126] Epict. _Disc._ ii 12, 17 to 25. [127] ‘plerosque istos, qui philosophari viderentur, philosophos esse eiuscemodi “ἄνευ τοῦ πράττειν, μέχρι τοῦ λέγειν”; id significat “factis procul, verbis tenus” A. Gellius, _N. A._ xvii 19, 1. [128] _ib._ xv 11, 4 and 5. [129] Epict. _Disc._ i 7, 32 and 33. [130] M. Aurelius, _To himself_, i 7 (Rendall’s translation). [131] _To himself_, v 10. [132] _ib._ vii 9. [133] _ib._ iv 3. [134] M. Aurelius, _To himself_, vi 10. [135] _ib._ vi 44. [136] See further, §§ 457 and 458. [137] M. Aurelius, _To himself_, xii 28. [138] _ib._ iv 49. [139] Epict. _Disc._ iii 24, 93 and 94. [140] M. Aurelius, _To himself_, iv 14. [141] _ib._ vi 24. [142] _ib._ ix 3. [143] _ib._ xi 3. [144] _ib._ v 33. [145] Rendall, _M. Aurelius_, Introd. p. cxii. [146] _ib._ cxv. CHAPTER VI. OF REASON AND SPEECH.