[38] ‘neque enim omnia deus homini fecit. quota pars operis tanti nobis committitur?’ Sen. _N. Q._ vii 30, 3; ‘nimis nos suspicimus, si digni nobis videmur propter quos tanta moveantur’ _Dial._ iv 27, 2. [39] Thus ‘horses assist men in fighting, dogs in hunting: lions and leopards provide a discipline in courage: the sow is convenient for sacrifices to the gods, who have given her a soul to serve as salt, and keep the flesh from rotting. The peacock is created for his tail, and the peahen accompanies him for symmetry’s sake. The flea is useful to wake us out of sleep, and the mouse to prevent us from being careless in leaving the cheese about.’ All these particulars are attributed to Chrysippus (Arnim ii 1152, 1163). [40] ‘etiam singulis a dis immortalibus consuli et provideri solet’ Cic. _N. D._ ii 65, 164. [41] ‘nec vero si segetibus aut vinetis cuiuspiam tempestas nocuerit, ... eum, cui quid horum acciderit, aut invisum deo aut neglectum a deo [iudicabimus]. magna di curant, parva neglegunt’ Cic. _N. D._ ii 66, 167; ‘[universorum] maior dis cura quam singulorum est’ Sen. _Dial._ i 3, 1. See also note 64. [42] ‘lege deum minimas rerum discordia turbat, | pacem magna tenent’ Lucan _Phars._ ii 273. [43] ‘licet contrahere universitatem generis humani eamque gradatim ad pauciores, postremo deducere ad singulos’ Cic. _N. D._ ii 65, 164. [44] _Hymn_, vv. 15, 16. [45] Plut. _comm. not._ 34, 5; _Sto. rep._ 34, 10. [46] This appears to be the correct interpretation of the saying of Epictetus—‘as a mark is not set up for the purpose of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the world’ _Manual_ 27 (Long’s transl. ii p. 269, where see his note). [47] ‘faciam rem non difficilem, causam deorum agam’ Sen. _Dial._ i 1, 1. [48] Gell. _N. A._ vii 1, 4 and 5; ‘nulli vitium est, nisi cui virtus potest esse’ Sen. _Ep._ 124, 19. [49] Plut. _comm. not._ 14, 1; M. Ant. vi 42. [50] A. Gellius, _N. A._ vii 1, 9 to 11. [51] Plut. _Sto. rep._ 32, 2. [52] Lactantius _de ira_ 13 (Arnim ii 1172). [53] πλὴν ὁπόσα ῥέζουσι κακοὶ σφετέρῃσιν ἀνοίαις Cleanthes _Hymn_ 18. [54] Cic. _N. D._ iii 28, 70. [55] ‘patrium deus habet adversus bonos viros animum et illos fortiter amat; operibus, inquit, doloribus, damnis exagitentur, ut verum colligant robur’ Sen. _Dial._ i 2, 6. [56] ‘deus quos probat, quos amat, indurat, recognoscit, exercet’ _ib._ 4, 7; ‘when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with rough young men’ Epict. _Disc._ i 24, 1. [57] This view of Origen is conjecturally assigned to a Stoic source (Arnim ii 1174). See also Philo ap. Euseb. _praep. ev._ viii 13. [58] Plut. _Sto. rep._ 15, 2. [59] Cic. _N. D._ iii 38, 90; Sen. _Ben._ iv 32, 1. [60] Arnim ii 1183. [61] φησὶ δὲ πολὺ καὶ τὸ τῆς ἀνάγκης μεμῖχθαι Plut. _Sto. rep._ 37, 2. [62] See above, § 222.