Dialogues and Letters (22 page)

exempla
80
;

exile freed from
28
;

government by others' preoccupations
82
;

in power of Fortune
51
;

precludes real tranquillity
60
;

regrets of dying
70–71
;

succession of new preoccupations
78
,
79–80
;

waste of time
xx–xxi
,
60
,
65
,
68
,
69
,
70–71
,
71–5
,
78
,
79–80

preparedness for misfortune
48–50
,
51–2

present time
68–9
,
69–70
,
87

pretence
56
,
99

pride
47

priesthoods
46

procrastination
62
,
68

Prometheus
91

prose works, Seneca's later

reputation and influence
xvii–xix
;

style
x–xi
;
see also individual entries

protreptic
xx
,
xxii
,
100–104
,
107–9

Ptolemy XIV Philopator, king of Egypt
50

public life: choice of leisure or
30–31
,
40
,
41
,
46
,
62–5
,
80
;

detachment from
6–7
;

under oppression
39–40
;

public service
xiv
,
25
,
36–40
,
80
;

risk of disgrace
49
;

Seneca's brother's distinction in
25
;

vanity
13
;

waste of time
66
,
71
,
79–80
,
82

Publilius Syrus
49

purpose, change of
33–6

Puteoli–Naples tunnel
93–4

Pyrenees
9
,
109

Pythagoras
76

quaestorship, Seneca's candidature
26

Quintilian
xi
,
xvi

Quintius Cincinnatus, Lucius
80

races, imagery of
45

Racine, Jean
xvi

realism in setting goals
40–41
,
46
,
50

reason
xiv
,
24

Regulus, Marcus Atilius
18
,
19
,
56

relaxation
56–8

relegatio
viii

Remus
75

reputation, Seneca's later
xvi–xix

restlessness
8
,
33–6
,
78

retirement: Seneca's
viii
;
see also
leisure and retirement

rhetoric
x
,
60
,
65
,
88

Rhine, River
109

rivalry in wisdom and virtue
xx
,
96–7

Rome: Aeneas'

foundation
10
;

attraction to restless
35
;

Circus
45,
74–5
;

corn supply
80–81
,
82
;

empire
10
,
11
,
38
,
63
,
109
;

hut of Romulus
12
;

immigrants
7–8
;

pomerium
75
;

Seneca's childhood move to
vii
,
26

Romulus, hut of
12

Rousseau, Jean Jacques
xviii

Rufus, Marcus Egnatius
63

Rutilia, mother of Cotta
23

Rutilius Rufus, Publius
55
,
87–8
,
98

Samnite Wars
15

sapientia, sapiens,
see
wisdom

Sarmatians
109

satire, Menippean
x

Scaevola, Gaius Mucius
88

scepticism
76

Sciathus
8

Scipio, Quintus Metellus
89

Scipio Africanus Maior, Publius Cornelius
18–19
,
56–7
,
80

scorn, coping with
20

Scylla
95

Scythia
9

sea voyages
27
,
28
,
49
,
67

Sejanus (Lucius Aelius Seianus)
49–50

self-appraisal
xxi
,
32
,
33
,
40–41

self-confidence
33
,
47

self-consciousness
56

self-control
44
,
76

self-indulgence
45
,
72–3

self-reliance
xv
,
6
,
44
,
52

senate procedure
57

Seneca, Lucius (or Marcus) Annaeus, the Elder
vii
,
5
,
24

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the Younger: family
vii
,
5
,
24
,
25–8
and
see also
Helvia
;

health
vii–viii
,
26
;

life
vii–ix
;

style (prose)
x–xi
,
xix
,
xxiii
, (verse)
xvi–xvii
;

works
ix–xiii
and see
individual entries for Apocolocyntosis
;

dialogues and other treatises;

letters (
Epistulae Morales
);

Natural Questions
;

spurious works attributed to Seneca;

tragedies, Seneca's

sentence structure
xxiii

sententiae (aphorisms)
xi
,
xviii

sentry, image of
6

Serenus
xxi
,
29–32

Seriphus
8

Sextius, Quintus
xiii

sexual desire
19
,
44
,
65

Shakespeare, William
xvi

shame at own failures
34

shipwrecks
27
,
28
,
52

shock, irrational
xix
,
93–4

Shortness of Life, On the,
see
On the Shortness of Life

Sicily, Lucilius' tour of
xix–xx
,
95–9

simplicity of life
15
,
31–2
,
56
,
102–4

sincerity
99
,
108

singing
72

Sisyphus
90–91

slaves
30
,
43
,
44
,
72

sleep
57

social duties
71
,
76
;
see also
clientage

Socrates
39
,
56
,
76
,
98
;

death
19–20
,
55
,
88

solitude
56

Solon
58

Sotion
xiii

soul: heavenly nature
xiv
,
8
,
17
,
97
; immortality
xix
,
17
,
28
,
53
,
94

Spain
109

Spaniards in Corsica
11

spurious works attributed to

Seneca
xvii–xviii

stars
12

status, freedom from concern with
47

stepmothers
4

Stoicism
ix
,
xiv
,
94
,
100
;

Seneca's eclectic
xiii–xv

strength of character: from coping with grief
4
;

Helvia's
xxii
,
21
,
22–3

studies, liberal: alleviate grief
24–5
;

moderation
45
;

preoccupation precludes
28
,
65
;

refuge from failure in public life
34
;

Seneca's, in exile
28
;

simplicity
31–2
;

and tranquillity of mind
36–7
,
45
;

useless
73–5
;

worthwhile
75–8

style, Seneca's: prose
x–xi
,
xix
,
xxiii
;

verse
xvii–xvii

suicide
88
,
92
: Seneca's
vii
,
viii–ix

Suillius Rufus, Publius
ix

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
11
,
74
,
75
,
87–8

sun
8–9
,
12

superfluous and essential, distinction between
xx
,
102–3

Tacitus, Cornelius
viii
, ix

Tarentum
35

Teles the Cynic xxii

temper, uncontrolled
65

Tertullian
xvii

Theodorus the Atheist
52

Theophrastus
76

Thirty Tyrants of Athens
20
,
39–40

Thracians
109

thrift
xxi
,
30
,
44–5
,
66

thunder
94
,
112
,
113

time
xv
,
xx–xxi
,
37
,
59–83
;

accounting for
61–2
;

expectancy as waste of
68
,
78–9
,
87
;

for oneself
60–61
,
62
,
80
;

others' encroachment on
41
,
60–61
,
62
,
66
,
67
,
68
,
82
;

past, present and future
68
,
69–70
,
76–7
,
78–9
,
87
;

preoccupation wastes
xx–xxi
,
60
,
65
,
68
,
69
,
70–71
,
71–5
78
,
79–80
;

public life wastes
66
,
71
,
79–80
,
82
;

retirement and philosophy as valuable use of
75–8
,
80–82
;

tranquillity from proper use of
67
;

useless studies waste of
xxi
,
73
–
5

torture
90

tragedies, Seneca's
ix–x
,
xvi–xvii

tranquillity
xv
,
xxi
,
29–58
;

on accepting human failings
xxi
,
54–5
;

described
33
;

fortitude and
xxi
,
45–50
,
52–4
,
55–6
;

leisure and
25
,
36–7
,
45
,
82
;

preoccupation precludes
60
;

proper use of time brings
67
;

public service and
36–40
;

relaxation and
56–8
;

self-appraisal and
xxi
,
32
,
33
40–41
;

self-reliance and
33
,
44
;

Seneca's aunt's
26
;

Seneca's brother's
25
;

studies and
45
;

thrift and
xxi
,
30
,
44–5
;

tradition of treatises on
xxi
,
33
,
51
;

see also
On Tranquillity of Mind

translation of Seneca
xviii
,
xxiii

Trevet, Nicholas
xvi

triumphs
74
,
75

Trojan War
10

troubles
see
misfortunes

tunnel, Naples-Puteoli
xix
,
93–4

Turannius, Sextus
83

twelfth-century Renaissance
xvi
,
xviii

tyranny
39–40
,
49

Tyre
9

underworld
90
–
91

universality of nature
11
–
12

universe, nature of
102
,
112

useless activities
xx–xxi
,
60
;

indiscriminate knowledge
xxi
,
73–5

usury, Seneca's wealth from
ix

Valerius Corvinus
74

values, moral
ix
,
xiii
,
xiv–xvi

vanity, personal
72

Varro, Marcus Terentius
11

Varro Murena, Aulus Terentius
63

verse, Seneca's
ix–x
;

style
xvi–xvii

vices: contagious
60
;

waste time
41–2
;

keep men from truth
65
;

see also
individual vices

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
68–9
,
96
,
109

virtue: attraction
37
;

exile carries own virtues with him
11–12
;

and fame
97–9
;

no rivalry in
xx
,
97
;

rewards of
98–9
;

Rome's
38
;

toughens mind against misfortunes
19
;

women's
xxii
,
21
,
22–3
,
26
,
27–8