Note 64 — Chapter IV · THE INFLUENCE OF STOICISM ON THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
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Juvenal, in reference to this says, Sat. II. 8:
“Frontis nulla fides, quis enim non vicus abundat
Tristibus obscœnis?”
So Sat. III. 105, he has the following:
“Audi facinus majoris abollæ.
Stoïcus occidit Baream, delator amicum,
Discipulumque senex.”
Respecting this man (P. Egnatius), Tacitus says (Ann. XVI. 32): “Cliens hic Sorani, et tunc emptus ad opprimendum amicum, auctoritatem Stoicæ sectæ præferebat, habitu et ore ad exprimendam imaginem honesti exercitus, ceterum animo perfidiosus, subdolus, avaritiam ac libidinem occultans.” He goes on to say we should be on our guard against those “specie bonarum artium falsos.”