1. Cicero, On Invention, 1.25 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •soul, formation of Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 74| 1.25. Sin oratio adversariorum fidem videbitur auditoribus fecisse—id quod ei, qui intellegit, quibus rebus fides fiat, facile erit cognitu— oportet aut de eo, quod adversarii firmissimum sibi pu- tarint et maxime ii, qui audient, probarint, primum te dicturum polliceri, aut ab adversarii dicto exordiri et ab eo potissimum, quod ille nuperrime dixerit, aut du- bitatione uti, quid primum dicas aut cui potissimum loco respondeas, cum admiratione. nam auditor cum eum, quem adversarii perturbatum putat oratione, vi- det animo firmissimo contra dicere paratum, plerum- que se potius temere assensisse quam illum sine causa confidere arbitratur. Sin auditoris studium defatigatio abalienavit a causa, te brevius, quam paratus fueris, esse dicturum commodum est polliceri; non imitaturum adversarium. sin res dabit, non inutile est ab aliqua re nova aut ridicula incipere aut ex tempore quae nata sit, quod genus strepitu, acclamatione; aut iam parata, quae vel apologum vel fabulam vel aliquam contineat inrisionem; aut si rei dignitas adimet iocandi facul- tatem, aliquid triste, novum, horribile statim non in- commodum est inicere. nam, ut cibi satietas et fasti- dium aut subamara aliqua re relevatur aut dulci miti- gatur, sic animus defessus audiendo aut admiratione integratur aut risu novatur. Ac separatim quidem, quae de principio et de insi- nuatione dicenda videbantur, haec fere sunt: nunc quiddam brevi communiter de utroque praecipiendum videtur. Exordium sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum debet habere et omnino omnia, quae pertinent ad dignitatem, in se continere, propterea quod id optime faciendum est, quod oratorem auditori maxime commendat; splendoris et festivitatis et concinnitudinis minimum, propterea quod ex his suspicio quaedam apparationis atque artificiosae diligentiae nascitur, quae maxime orationi fidem, oratori adimit auctoritatem. | |
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2. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.58 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •world formation, world-soul Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 270 | 2.58. the nature of the world itself, which encloses and contains all things in its embrace, is styled by Zeno not merely 'craftsmanlike' but actually 'a craftsman,' whose foresight plans out the work to serve its use and purpose in every detail. And as the other natural substances are generated, reared and sustained each by its own seeds, so the world-nature experiences all those motions of the will, those impulses of conation and desire, that the Greeks call hormae, and follows these up with the appropriate actions in the same way as do we ourselves, who experience emotions and sensations. Such being the nature of the world-mind, it can therefore correctly be designated as prudence or providence (for in Greek it is termed pronoia); and this providence is chiefly directed and concentrated upon three objects, namely to secure for the world, first, the structure best fitted for survival; next, absolute completeness; but chiefly, consummate beauty and embellishment of every kind. |
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3. Philo of Alexandria, Who Is The Heir, 265, 295-300, 294 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 64 | 294. The child, after it is brought forth, during its age of infancy, till it has completed its first period of seven years, has a pure unmixed nature, very like a smooth waxen tablet, which has not yet been stamped with the indelible impressions of good or evil; for all the things which appear to be engraved upon it are soon confused and effaced by reason of its moisture: |
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4. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Moses, 1.60 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •soul, formation of Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 103, 104 | 1.60. And after his marriage, Moses took his father-in-law's herds and tended them, being thus instructed in the lessons proper to qualify him for becoming the leader of a people, for the business of a shepherd is a preparation for the office of a king to any one who is destined to preside over that most manageable of all flocks, mankind, just as hunting is a good training-school for men of warlike dispositions; for they who are practising with a view to learning the management of an army, previously study the science of hunting, brute animals being as some raw material exposed to their attacks in order for them to practise the art of commanding on each occasion of war or of peace, |
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5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Virtues, 128, 130 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 64 | 130. For her first bounty was the birth by means of which that which had no existence was brought into being; the second bounteous gift was the flow of milk, the most tender and seasonable food for a tender creature, which, though it is only one thing, is at the same time both meat and drink. For inasmuch as part of the milk is of a watery nature, it is drink; and inasmuch as part of it is of a somewhat solid nature, it is meat; and it is endowed with these characteristics from a prudent foresight to prevent the lately born offspring from suffering disaster, through want lying in wait for it at different times, taking care thus that, by the one and the same application of each kind of food, it may escape those cruel mistresses, hunger and thirst. |
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6. Philo of Alexandria, On The Eternity of The World, 48-49, 51, 50 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 270 | 50. Consider the matter thus: let the world be the subject of our argument, as Dion was just now, for it is perfect, and let the soul of the world take the place of Theon, who was imperfect, since a part is less than the whole; and as the foot was cut off from Dion, so also let everything which resembles a body be cut off from the world; |
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| 7. Plutarch, On Stoic Self-Contradictions, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 268 |
| 8. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 9.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •world formation, world-soul Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 270 |
| 9. Epictetus, Discourses, 3.13.4-3.13.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •world formation, world-soul Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 270 |
| 10. Plutarch, On Common Conceptions Against The Stoics, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •world formation, world-soul Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 269 |
| 11. New Testament, Galatians, 4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •soul, formation of Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 102 |
| 12. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 1.24.158.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •soul, formation of Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 103 |
13. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.139 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •world formation, world-soul Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 268 | 7.139. For through some parts it passes as a hold or containing force, as is the case with our bones and sinews; while through others it passes as intelligence, as in the ruling part of the soul. Thus, then, the whole world is a living being, endowed with soul and reason, and having aether for its ruling principle: so says Antipater of Tyre in the eighth book of his treatise On the Cosmos. Chrysippus in the first book of his work On Providence and Posidonius in his book On the Gods say that the heaven, but Cleanthes that the sun, is the ruling power of the world. Chrysippus, however, in the course of the same work gives a somewhat different account, namely, that it is the purer part of the aether; the same which they declare to be preeminently God and always to have, as it were in sensible fashion, pervaded all that is in the air, all animals and plants, and also the earth itself, as a principle of cohesion. |
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| 14. Gregory The Wonderworker, Panergyric On Origen, 7, 6 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 110 |
| 15. Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, 8 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •soul, formation of Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 74 |
| 16. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Makrina, 11-14, 3-10 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 77 |
| 17. Gregory of Nyssa, De Vita Mosis, 1.1-1.15, 1.17-1.22, 2.6-2.53 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •soul, formation of Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 45, 86, 102, 103, 104 |
| 18. Galen of Pergamum, Cap., 1-2 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 34 |
| 19. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 2.642 Tagged with subjects: •world formation, world-soul Found in books: Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 268 |
| 20. Gregory of Nyssa, Vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi, 22-23, 25-27, 34, 24 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 110 |
