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Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, We ought to connive at the faults of our friends, and all offenses are not to be ranked
in the catalogue of crimes. (search)
Nor did he proceed with less cruelty against those who were not of his family.
A blazing star, which is vulgarly supposed to portend destruction to kings and princes, appeared above the horizon several nights successively.
This comet, as well as one which appeared the year in which Claudius died, is described by Seneca, Natural. Quast. VII. c. xvii. and xix. and by Pliny, II. c. xxxv.
He felt great anxiety on account of this phenomenon, as being informed by one Babilus, an astrologer, that princes were used to expiate such omens by the sacrifice of illustrious persons, and so avert the danger foreboded to their own persons, by bringing it on the heads of their chief men, he resolved on the destruction of the principal nobility in Rome.
He was the more encouraged to this, because he had some plausible pretence for carrying it into execution, from the discovery of two conspiracies against him; the former and more dangerous of which was that formed by PisoSee Tacitus, Annal. xv. 48-55.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS., CHAP. 1. (1.)—WHETHER THE WORLD BE FINITE, AND
WHETHER THERE BE MORE THAN ONE WORLD. (search)
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS., CHAP. 3. (3.)—OF ITS NATURE; WHENCE THE NAME IS DERIVED. (search)
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS., CHAP. 5. (7.)—OF GODIt is remarked by Enfield , Hist. of Phil . ii. 131, that "with respect
to philosophical opinions, Pliny did not rigidly adhere to any sect....
He reprobates the Epicurean tenet of an infinity of worlds; favours the
Pythagorean notion of the harmony of the spheres; speaks of the universe
as God, after the manner of the Stoics, and sometimes seems to pass over
into the field of the Sceptics. For the most part, however, he leans to
the doctrine of Epicurus." . (search)
CHAP. 5. (7.)—OF GODIt is remarked by Enfield, Hist. of Phil. ii. 131, that "with respect
to philosophical opinions, Pliny did not rigidly adhere to any sect....
He reprobates the Epicurean tenet of an infinity of worlds; favours the
Pythagorean notion of the harmony of the spheres; speaks of the universe
as God, after the manner of the Stoics, and sometimes seems to pass over
into the field of the Sceptics. For the most part, however, he leans to
the doctrine of Epicurus.".
I consider it, therefore, an indication of human weakness
to inquire into the figure and form of God. For whatever
God be, if there be any other God"Si alius est Deus quam sol," Alexandre in Lem. i. 230. Or rather,
if there be any God distinct from the world; for the latter part of the
sentence can scarcely apply to the sun. Poinsinet and Ajasson, however,
adopt the same opinion with M. Alexandre; they translate the passage,
"s'il en est autre que le soleil," i. 17 and ii. 11., and wherever he exists, he is
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