Virtus: the Stoic sage, spokesman of the Stoic Virtue (3.2.17), uses the porticoes of the people but not their estimates of good and evil (dissidens plebi, of. Epp. 1. 1.71), like Socrates (Plato, Gorg. 470 e) refuses to count even the Great King happy without knowing how he stands in respect of culture and virtue, defines real kingship as 'a truer mental and higher moral state' (Ruskin), and assigns the safer diadem and the inalienable laurel to him who can pass by heaps of treasure with unreverting eye.-populum . . . uti: teaches the people to cease using false terms. Cf. Sal. Cat. 52. iam pridem . . . nos vera vocabula rerum amisimus.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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