L. ANNAEUS SENECA

MINOR DIALOGUES
TOGETHER WITH THE DIALOGUE
ON CLEMENCY


TRANSLATED BY
AUBREY STEWART, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE



LONDON — GEORGE BELLAND SONS, YORK STREET
COVENT GARDEN
1889


CHISWICK PRESS :—C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE


PREFACE.

I can say little by way of preface to Seneca’s “MinorDialogues”which I have not already expressed in my preface to “De Beneficiis,”except that the “Minor Dialogues” seem to me to be composed ina gloomier key than either the “De Beneficiis” or “DeClementia,”and probably were written at a time when the author had alreadybegun to experience the ingratitude of his imperial pupil. Someof the Dialogues are dated from Corsica, Seneca’s place of exile,which he seems to have found peculiarly uncomfortable, althoughhe remarks that there are people who live there from choice.Nevertheless, mournful as they are in tone, these Dialogues havea certain value, because they teach us what was meant by Stoicphilosophy in the time of the Twelve Caesars. I have only toadd that the value of my work has been materially enhanced bythe kindness of the Rev. Professor J. E. B. Mayor, who has beengood enough to read and correct almost all the proof sheets ofthis volume.

AUBREY STEWART.

London, 1889.

CONTENTS.

  PAGE
Of Providence 1
On the Firmness of the Wise Man 22
Of Anger. I. 48
  " II. 76
  " III. 115
Of Consolation. To Marcia 162
Of a Happy Life 204
Of Leisure 240
Of Peace of Mind 250
Of the Shortness of Life 288
Of Consolation. To Helvia 320
  " To Polybius 353
Of Clemency. I. 380
  " II. 415

THE FIRST BOOK OF THE DIALOGUES1
OF L. ANNAEUS SENECA,
ADDRESSED TO LUCILIUS.
“WHY, WHEN A PROVIDENCE EXISTS, ANY MISFORTUNESBEFALLGOOD MEN;” OR, “OF PROVIDENCE”

I. You have asked me, Lucilius, why, if the world be ruled byprovidence, so many evils befall good men? The answer to thiswould be more conveniently given in the course of this work,after we have proved that providence governs the

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