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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 10.4


nanSpeak, and live, in this way; see to it that nothing keeps you down. As for your former prayers, you may dispense the gods from answering them; offer new prayers; pray for a sound mind and for good health, first of soul and then of body. And of course you should offer those prayers frequently. Call boldly upon God; you will not be asking him for that which belongs to another.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.3.2 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.3.2. And again, when he prayed he asked simply for good gifts, Cyropaedia I. vi. 5. for the gods know best what things are good. To pray for gold or silver or sovereignty or any other such thing, was just like praying for a gamble or a fight or anything of which the result is obviously uncertain.
2. New Testament, Matthew, 6.7-6.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6.7. In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. 6.8. Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
3. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 5.4-5.5, 8.2, 14.1-14.2, 31.8, 32.4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome, Meditations, 9.40 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
bodies, body Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
body Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
body (as detached from the soul) Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
character, excellence of Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
christian, believers Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
destiny Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
disciple, of jesus Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
divine, knowledge Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
ethics, of stoicism Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
evil Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
freedom Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
friendship Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
god Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
gods Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
good Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
happiness Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
health Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
honourableness Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
iamblichus Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
knowledge, divine Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
knowledge Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
lord, the, lords prayer Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
lucilius Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
marcus aurelius Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
mind Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
pagan / pagans / pagan religion, prayers Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
petitions (to the gods) Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
philosophers, tradition Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
piety / pious Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
prayer, criticism of Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
prayer, petitionary Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
prayer, uselessness of Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
prayers Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
providence Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
pythagoras Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
pythagorean / pythagoreans, tradition Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
seneca Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36; Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
socrates Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
soul' Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 365
spirit Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
stoa, stoic(ism) Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
verbosity Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253
wisdom Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 36
xenophon Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 253