Marcus Aurelius and the Later Stoics - College of Stoic Philosophers

opfyavovs"""THE NEW CYNISM 87sense of son ship take away all our pain, if affinity toan earthly Caesar makes one arrogant? (Juvenal s "tumidumqueNerone propinquo TO Se TOV Sebv")e%eivK. irarepa K. /crjo efjLovaovKen rjfiasXVTTMV K. $6l3a)v ; No student of human history, quiteapart from religious conviction, will doubt the absoluteefficacy of such an assurance for a life of heroic effortand martyrdom but in our author it is an unwarrant;able "poetic licence," or an accretion on Stoic Positivism.49. When you get hotter water than you wantedfrom your servant, or find the fire is out, and there snone to be had, you say: Uw5ovv TI<$dvdo"^r)TaiTO>VTOCOVTCOV ; AvSpdtroSov, ovrc dve%r) TOV do e\(f)ov TOVcravTOV, 05 e^ei TOV Aia irpoyovov, w&Trep ulos efcavTwv o-TrepfJuaTdov yeyove K. T?}? avTfjs avwOev(cf. St. John i. 12, 13, iii. 7), ov pefjivrfo-rjdSeX^wy <j>uo-t,T L el K.; QTL o~vyyevS)v }on OTI TOVHe sweeps aside the next pretext of absoluteownership with magnificent indignation and contemptfor the material fabric and social conventions, But Ibought him with my own Domoney." you see whereyou are looking To ? earth, to this pit of confusion, tothese miserable legal fictions of dead men, not to theeternal laws of heavenly ordinance !(efc TVJV yrjv, et?TO /3dpa0pov, el? TOV? Ta\ai7ra>povsTOUTOU? I oyu.ou? TOU?TCOP ve/cpwv, eh Se TOV<; T&V 6ewv ov /QXeVets). Hercules,through his life, spent in perpetual toil and exile, wasnever anxious about his children. 289: ov o-Tevwv ovSeiroOtov ovSct>?a^iet? 1 rjSei yapOTI ovSefa e.dvdp. op^avos, d\\a irdvTwv del K. Snyveicws 6 riar^p e.o KT)86p.vos. For to Hercules it was no mere report ortheoretic belief that Zeus was the father of men (pe^pl\6yov...) 05 ye K. avTOv Harepa O^-TO avTov K. etca\ei K.}