“Pure love,” i.e., love in its essence, unalloyed with other emotions. ↩
Cf. his Fragmenta moralia 674 von Arnim. ↩
The distinction is based upon the meaning of egere, “to be in want of” something indispensible, and opus esse, “to have need of” something which one can do without. ↩
This refers to the Stoic conflagration: after certain cycles their world was destroyed by fire. Cf. E. V. Arnold, Roman Stoicism, pp. 192 f.; cf. also Chrysippus, Fragmenta physica 1065 von Arnim. ↩
Gnomologici Vaticani 515a Sternberg. ↩
Frag. 474 Usener. ↩
Cf. paragraph 3. ↩
I.e., not confined to the Stoics, etc. ↩
Author unknown; perhaps, as Buecheler thinks, adapted from the Greek. ↩
Frag. de superstitione 36 H., according to Rossbach. ↩
Epicurus, Frag. 210 Usener. ↩
Frag. 210 Usener. ↩
The figure is taken from the ἄδυτον, the Holy of Holies in a temple. Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, VI 10 secreta Sibyllas. ↩
A jesting allusion to the Roman funeral; the corpse’s feet pointing towards the door. ↩
His former owner should have kept him and buried him. ↩
Small figures, generally of terra-cotta, were frequently given to children as presents at the Saturnalia. Cf. Macrobius, I 11. 49 sigila … pro se atque suis piaculum. ↩
I.e., the old slave resembles a child in that he is losing his teeth (but for the second time). ↩
I.e., seniores, as contrasted with iuniores. ↩
ὁ σκοτεινός, “the Obscure,” Frag. 106 Diels2. ↩
I.e., of light and darkness. ↩
Usus was the mere enjoyment of a piece of property; dominium was the exclusive right to its control. Possession for one, or two, years conferred ownership. See Leage, Roman Private Law, pp. 133, 152, and 164. Although Pacuvius was governor so long that the province seemed to belong to him, yet he knew he might die any day. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid, IV 653. ↩
Epicurus, Sprüche, 9 Wokte. ↩
Seneca dismisses the topic of “exaggerated ills,” because judgements will differ concerning present troubles; the Stoics, for example, would not admit that torture was an evil at all. He then passes on to the topic of “imaginary ills,” paragraph 4, and afterwards to “anticipated ills,” paragraphs 4 and 5. From paragraph 6 on, he deals with both imaginary and anticipated ills. ↩
Cf. Solon’s καὶ με κωτίλλοντα λείως τραχὺν ἐκφανεῖ νόον. ↩
Epicurus, Frag. 494 Usener. ↩
Cf. Tacitus, Annals, XV 44, describing the tortures practised upon the Christians. ↩
Scylla was a rock on the Italian side of the Straits. Charybdis was a whirlpool on the Sicillian side. Servius on Virgil, Aeneid, III, 420 defines the dextrum as the shore “to the right of those coming from the Ionian sea.” ↩
Cf. Juvenal, X 22 cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator. ↩
Cf. the proverb necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent, which is found in Seneca, de Ira, II 11. 4 and often elsewhere. ↩
Literally, “is as good as a (priest’s) fillet.” ↩
Cf. Tacitus Histories I 50 inter duos quorum bello solum id scires, deteriorem fore vicisset. ↩
See, for example, Letter XXII. ↩
Epicurus, Ep. III p. 63. 19 Usener. ↩
Named kalendarium because interest was reckoned according to the Kalends of each month. ↩
I.e., the prize-ring; the contestants were rubbed with oil before the fight began. ↩
Cardiacus meant, according to Pliny, Natural History XXIII 1. 24, a sort of dyspepsia accompanied by fever and perspiration. Compare the man in Juvenal V 32, who will not send a spoonful of wine to a friend ill of this complaint. ↩
Named from the Salii, or leaping priests of Mars. ↩
The fuller, or washerman, cleansed the clothes by leaping and stamping upon them in the tub. ↩
Epicurus, Frag. 491 Usener. ↩
Court fools of the period. ↩
I.e., have merely advanced in years. ↩
Frag. 201 Usener. ↩
Perhaps from the Hortensius; see Müller, Frag. 98, p. 326. ↩
Literally, “Water!” ↩
Frag. 479 Usener. ↩
I.e., the whole year is a Saturnalia. ↩
For a dinner dress. ↩
The pilleus was worn by newly freed slaves and by the Roman populace on festal occasions. ↩
The Epicureans. Cf. paragraph 6 and Epicurus, Frag. 158. Usener. ↩
Cf. Letter C, paragraph 3 and Martial, III 48. ↩
The post which gladiators used when preparing themselves for combats in the arena. ↩
Usually identified with Chaerimus, 307–8 BC. But Wilhelm, Öster Jahreshefte, V 136, has shown that there is probably no confusion of names. A Charinus was archon at Athens in 290–89; see Johnson, Class. Phil. IX p. 256. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid, VIII 364 f. ↩
Frag. 484 Usener. ↩
See the Introduction, paragraph 6. ↩
