Acknowledgements

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IndexNotes

Consolation for Unpopularity

Aside fror. i mention of Aristophanes and quotci-i ins from Plato's Phaedo, the portrait of Socrates is drawn from Plato's early and middle dialogues (the so-called Socraric dialogues): Apology, Charmidet;, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Menexenus, Meno, Protagoras and Republic, boo1e I.

Quotadons taken from:

The Last Days of Socrates, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, Penguin, 1987

Early Socratic Dialogues, Plato, translated by lain Lane, Penguin, 1987 Protagoras and Mew, Plato, translated by W. K. C. Guthrie, Penguin, 1987 Gorgias, Plato, translated by Robin Waterfield, OUP, 1994.

p. 4 So ... deaths: Apology. 2,9d

p. 15 Whenever . . . angle: Laches. i88a

p. 18 Let's - . courageous: Ladies,

i9oe-i9Ja

p. 18 Ar, , , batde: Laches, 1910

p. 20 By . inescapable: Meno, 78c-79a

p. 28 I... ciries: Apology, 36b

p. 28 I . , . v, i.'11-being: Apology, 36d

pp. 28 9 I . . , fellow-citizen: Apology,

29d

p. 29 I    narrow: Apology, 363

p. i2 If... choose: Gorgias, 472a-b

pp. 32-3 The . . . him: Gorgias, 47ie-472a

p. 31 Vv'hcn . . . public; Crito, 47b

p. 34 Pon't. . . say: Crito, 47a-48a

p. 36 1 . - time: Apology, 37a-b

p. 37 ] i ... sleeping: Apology, 300! 3ia

p. 39 In ... off: Phaedo, n6c-d

p. 39 When . . . himself: Phaedo, H7a-d

p. 40 What. . . friends': Pkaedo, ii7d

p. 40 And . . . iriiiii: Phaedo, ii8a

Consolation for Not Having Enough

Money

Quotations taken from:

The Essential Epicurus, Epicurus, translated

by Eugene O'Connor, Prometheus

Book5,1993

The Epicurean Inscription, Diogenes of

Oinoanda, translated by Martin

Ferguson Smith, Bibliopolis, 1993

On the Nature of the Universe, Lucretius,

translated by R. E. Latham, revised by

John Godwin, Penguin, 1994

p. 50 If. .. forms: Fragments, vi.io

p. 50 Pleasure . . . life: Letter to Menoeceus,

128

p. 50 The . . . this: Fragments, 59

pp. 50-51 The . .. Happiness: Letter to

Menoeceus, 122

p. 55 A ... malady: Lucretius, DeRerum

Natura. 111.1070

p. 55 Just. . . mind: Fragments, 54

p. 56 Send . . . like: Fragments, 39

p. 57 Of. . . friendship: Principa'i l.'octrines,

p. 57 Before . . . \\ olf: quoted in Seneca,

F.p^ile, xix,10

p. 58 We . .. poliucs: Vatican Sayings. yS

p. 58 The . . . pk'iiyant: Letter to Menoeceus,

12(1

p. 59 What. . . anticipation: Letter to

Menoeceus, 12.1-5

p. 59 There .. . living: Letter 10 Menoeceus,

125

247Notes

p. &u Of,.. necessary: Principal Doctrines,

2y

p. 67 Plain . - - away: Letter to Menoeceus,

130

p. 62 As ... without: Porphyry reporting

Epicurus's view in On Abstinence,

1.51.6-52.1

p. 62 Nothing - - - little: Fragments, 69

p. 63 The . . . accomplished?: Vatican

Sayings, /T

p. 64 The - , . Joy: Vatican Sayings, 81

p. 65 idle opinions: Principal Doctrines, 20

p. 67 Luxurious . . . flesh: Diogenes o:'

Oinoanda, Fragment 109

p. 67 One . . . overflowing: Diogenes ot'

Oinoanda, Fragment TOS

p. 67 Real. . . science: Diogenes of

Oinoanda, Fragment 2

p. 67 Having . . . salvation: Diogenes of

Oinoanda, Fragment 3 (adapted)

p. 68 chosen . . . senses: Lucretius, De

Rerum Natura, V.H33-4

p. 68 send . . . like: Fragments, 39

p. 69 ergo . . hcrbas'. Lucretius, DeRen'.iU

Naiura, 11.20-33

p. 70 When , . . poverty: Vatican Saying. 25

p. 70 Mankind . . . seas: Lucretius, De

Rerum Krn ::ru, ¥.1430-',

p. 70 It... gi.i'.)d: Letter io Menoeceus, 129

C(-'-nso'latio'!'.-JorFnu',i:'dtwn

Quotations taken h-orri:

Tilt.' Annals of Imperial Kome, Tacitus,

Translated by Michael Grant, Penguin,

•996

T'l;' Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, translated

hx' Robert Graves, Penguin, 1991

translated by John M. Cooper andJ. F.

Procope, CUP, 1995

Naturales Quaestiones i & n, Seneca,

translated by T. H. Corcoran, Loeb-

Harvard,1972

p. 76 Where , . . tutor; Tacitus, xv.62

p. 76 I ... eni-T Tacitus, xv-63

p. 77 He . . . undisturbed: Epistulae Morales,

civ.28-9

p. 78 the Monster: Suetonius. Caligula,

IV.22

p. 78 on ... neck!; Suetonius. Caligula, iv.30

p. 79 I. , . it: Epistulae Morales, Lxxvin.3

p. 82 There . . . vices: Deira, 11.36.5-6

p. 84 Prosperity . . . tempers: Deira, 11.21.7

p. 84 What. .. columns?: Deira, 1.19-4

pp. 84-5 Why. . . servant?: Deira, 11.25.3

p. 85 Why . . . talking?: De Ira, 111.35.2

p. 85 Is ... misbehave?: De Jra, 11.31,4

p. 87 There . . . dare: Epistulae Morales,

xci-15

p. 88 Nothing . . . happen: Epistulae

Morales, xci.4

p. 88 What. . . Fortune: Of Ccnsolatwne ad

Marciam, xi.3

p. 89 You . . . happened - , ,?; De

Consolatione ad Marciam, ix.5

p. 89 Who . . . immobile: Naturales

Quaestiones, i.vi.n-i2

p. 90 the . - , never-ending: De Consolatione

ad Marciam, iv.i

p. 90 We . . . property: De Consolatione ad

Marciam, ix.i-2

p. 90 No . . . hour: De Consoia tiow- ad.

Marciam, x.4

p. 91 [The wise]. . . thought. . .: De Ira.,

II.I0.7

Dialogues and Letters, Seneca, translated by p. 91 Fortune . . . own: Episiuliif. Morales,

C. D. N. Costa, Penguin, 1997 Lxxn-7

Letters/rom a Stoic, Seneca, translated by p. 91 Nothing . . , whirl: Episi idae Morales,

Robin Campbell, Penguin, 1969 xci.7

Moral Essays, volume i, Seneca, translated p. 91 Whatever . . . empires: Epistulae

by John W. Basore, Loeb-Harvard, 1994 Morales, xcu.6

Moral Essays, volume n, Seneca, translated p. 91 How . .. ruins?: /-.; •i^tulae Morales,

by John W. Basore, Loeb-Harvard, 1996 xci.9

Moral and Political Essays, Seneca, p. 91 We . . . die: Efnsu:',;-" Morales, xci.iz

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Notes

p. 91 Mortal. . . bin h: De Consolatione ad

Marciam, xi.i

p. 91 Reckon . . . everything- De Jra, 11.31.4

p. 92 Quotiens . - . pedsti: Di Consolatione

ad Marciam, ix.3

p. 95 I... myself: Epistulae AI.i roles, xiv.i6

p. 97 You . . . hope: Epistulae .'' wrales,

xxiv.s

p. 97 I. , - happen: Epistulae .\\or^i.i's.

XXIV. 1-2

p. 97lf.. . prison?: Epistulae Morale, xxiv.3

p. 97 'I... now?': Epistulae Morales, xsiv.i7

p. 97 The . . - good: Epistulae Morales,

xv m.9

p.'-}-- Is... Fortune: Epistulae Morales,

.^111.5-9

p. 99 Stop . - - poverty: Vita Beata. xxiii.i

p. 9^ I... half: Vita Beata, xxv.5

p. 98 The . , - himself: De Constantsa, v.4

p. 98 The . - - left: Epistulae Morales, ix.4

p. 99 The . . - tall: Vita Beata, xxn.2

p. 99 The . . . them: Epistulae Morales, ix.5

p. 99 Never . . . me: Consolation to Helvia,

v.4

p. 102 a ... spirit: Dc Constantia, x.3

pp. 102-3 'So ... table': De Constantia, x.2

p, 103 [The . . . everything: Epistulae

Morales, Lxxxi-25

p. 103 I... mankind: Epistulae Morales,

vi.7

pp. 103-4 Imagine - . , ?1: ips; Epistulae

Morales, Lvi.i-2

p. 105 All... -within; £;".' ^ulae Morales,

LVI.5

p. 107 When . .. destine d: Bishop

Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1,21

(quoted in A. A. Long & D. N. Sedley,