[124] _Iliad_, ix. 312-3 (Chapman’s translation). This actual text is quoted in PHILOSTRATUS’ _Lives of the Sophists_ (i. 25) as a criticism on some of the false and fantastic exercises of the Sophists. The “distant lapse” referred to in the text is constantly evident in the dramas of the best Athenian period. And history shows that there was a strong tendency in the Hellenic character agreeing with that indicated by the evidence of the dramatists, notwithstanding the outcry raised when Euripides summed up the whole matter in his famous line in the Hippolytus (_Hipp._ 612). [125] PHILOSTRATUS: _Vitæ Sophistarum_, lib. i. sec. 24. [126] E.g., _De Stoic. Repug._, 1033 A, B; _De Audiendo_, 43 F. [127] See frequent passages in Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, e.g. _Ep._ i. 16, 20. Cf. _De Vita Beata_, cap. 18, where Seneca defends himself and other philosophers against the charge “_aliter loqueris: aliter vivis_.” He will not be deterred from the pursuit of virtue by any truth human weakness may have to admit in the charge. This note is well marked in both Aurelius and Epictetus (ii. 19. Cf. AULUS GELLIUS, xvii. 19). The praise of Ulysses at the end of the _De Deo Socratis_ of Apuleius is couched in the same strain. [128] CATULLUS, xvi. 4, 5; OVID: _Tristia_, ii. 353-4; MARTIAL, i. 5. [129] PLINY: _Ep._ v. 3. Plutarch, also, is legitimately offended at the loose language of the founders of Stoicism (see _De Stoic. Repug._, 1044 B), and his expressions, as are those of Pliny’s friends, are quite in harmony with the modern attitude on the question. Apuleius defends himself against a similar charge to that brought against Pliny by a similar display of great names.—“Fecere tamen et _alii talia_” (De Deo Socratis). [130] HORACE: _Ep._ i. 1, 14. [131] EPICTETUS: _Encheir._, 49; _Discourses_, iii. 2; i. 17. [132] SENECA: _Epist. ad Lucilium_, i. 21. Here are a few of the _egregia dicta_ which Seneca takes from the teachings of Epicurus, or Metrodorus, or _alicujus ex illa officina_.—“_Honesta res est læta paupertas_,” “_Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus_,” “_Philosophiæ servias oportet ut tibi contingat vera libertas_,” “_Si cui sua non videntur amplissima, licet totius mundi dominus sit, tamen miser est_,” “_Quid est turpius, quam senex vivere incipiens?_” “_Is maxime divitiis fruitur, qui minime divitiis indiget_,” “_Immodica ira gignit insaniam_,” “_Sic fac omnia, tanquam spectet Epicurus_,” “_Initium est salutis, notitia peccati_,” &c. Yet Seneca was the _acerrimus Stoicus_ of Lactantius (_Div. Inst._, i. 5). [133] Fragment 120 in Bergk’s third edition, 144 in his fourth edition, and 107 in Böckh’s edition. W. Christ includes it in his selections—ἐξ ἀδήλων εἰδῶν (No. 4). [134] _Iliad_, ix. 498; xi. 3, 73; iv. 440.