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1. For Stoics all vices are equally evil; all virtues equally good. Horace (as cited) denies that: Satires, I, i, 107; I, iii, 115–17.
2. Erasmus, Apophthegmata, III, Socratica, XXXIII.
3. The Germanic peoples.
4. Lucretius, III, 475–8.
5. Seneca, Epist. moral., LXXXIII, 16; Horace, Odes, III, xxi, 14–17.
6. Flavius Josephus (the Jewish historian): De vita sua.
7. Seneca, Epist. moral., LXXXIII, 14–15 (for both Piso and Cossa).
8. Virgil, Bucolica, VI, 15 (adapted).
9. Seneca, Epist. moral., LXXXIII, 12–13.
10. Juvenal, Satires, XV, 47–8.
11. Diodorus Siculus, XV, xxvi.
12. Pseudo-Gallus, I, 47–8.
13. [A]: That true portrait of Stoic virtue, Cato… (Montaigne had first confused Cato of Utica with Cato the Censor).
14. Horace, Odes, III, xxi, 11–12.
15. ’88: dull. Plato attributes to it the same effect on the mind. [B] And we can… (Cf. Erasmus, Adages, IV, III, LVIII, Non est dithyrambus qui hibit aquam; Rabelais, Tiers Livre, TLF, Prologue, 175ff.; Plutarch (tr. Amyot), Propos de Table, 364B; 420A.) Joannes Sylvius (Dubois) was a doctor and pharmacologist of note. He died in 1576.
16. ’95: life: and where do you hope more rightly to find them among the natural pleasures? But…
17. The Libro aureo del emperador Marco Aurelio of Bishop Antonio de Guevara.
18. Diogenes Laertius, Life of Anacharsis.
19. Cf. Tiraquellus, De legibus connubialibus, XIII, §147, citing Plato’s Laws.
20. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Stilpo and of Arcesilaus.
21. Horace, Odes, III, xxviii, 4.
22. Lucretius, III, 155–8.
23. Terence, Heautontimorumenos, I, i, 25.
24. Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 1.
25. Plutarch (tr. Amyot), Publicola, III.
26. The Stoics.
27. The Epicureans; Cicero, Tusc. disput., V, ix, 27, citing Metrodorus the pupil of Epicurus.
28. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Philosophers, I, civ.
29. Flavius Josephus, De Macabaeorum martyrio.
30. Erasmus, Apophthegmata, VII, Antithenes Atheniensis, III; other examples from Aulus Gellius, IX, v, and Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyposes, III, xx.
31. Virgil, Aeneid, IV, 158–9.
32. Seneca, De tranquillitate, XV (a major borrowing).
33. Plato, Timaeus, 71D–72A.