c teaching see Zeller, _Stoics_,
etc., p. 135 foll.; Caird, _Gifford Lectures_, vol. ii.,
Lectures 16 and 17.

[779] _Marcus Aurelius and the Later Stoics_, by F. W.
Bussell p. 42.

[780] Cic. _N.D._ ii. ch. 28 (secs. 70-72), with Mayor's
commentary; Zeller, _op. cit._ p. 327 foll.; Mayor,
introduction to vol. ii. of his edition of Cic. _N.D._
xi. foll.; _Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero_,
p. 334 foll. It is important to note the distinction
drawn by Cicero between religion and superstition; what
Lucretius called _religio_ as a whole Cicero (and Varro
too, cf. Aug. _Civ. Dei_, vi. 9) thus divided. See
Mayor's valuable note, vol. ii. p. 183. Some interesting
remarks on the Stoic way of dealing with popular
mythology will be found in Oakesmith's _Religion of
Plutarch_, p. 68 foll.

[781] See above, p. 118 foll.

[782] See Mayor's note on Cic. _N.D._ ii. 15. 39 (vol.
i. p. 130), with quotation from Philodemus. Zeller,
_Stoics_, etc., p. 337 foll.

[783] Cic. _de Legibus_, i. 7. 22.

[784] _Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum_, Paris, 1883.
I have borrowed the beautiful translation of my friend
Hastings Crossley, printed p. 183 foll. of his _Golden
Sayings of Epictetus_, in Macmillan's Golden Treasury
Series.

[785] _Gifford Lectures_, ii. p. 94.

[786] So Schmekel, _Die mittlere Stoa_, p. 61 foll. The
evidence is not conclusive, and the process of argument
is one of elimination; but it raises a fairly strong
probability.

[787] Cic. _de Rep._ i. 21. 34.

[788] See Zeller, _Stoics_, etc., p. 294 foll.

[789] Cic. _de Rep._ iii. 22. 33.

[790] Cic. _de Legibus_, i. 7. 22 foll.: "Est igitur,
quoniam nihil est ratione melius, eaque in homine et in
deo, prima homini cum deo rationis societas. Inter quos
autem ratio, inter eosdem etiam recta ratio communis
est," etc.

[791] Zeller, _Stoics_, etc., p. 226 foll.

[792] _Social Life at Rome_, p. 117.

[793] _Ib._ p. 118 foll.

[794] I may take this opportunity of noting that a Roman
might better understand this notion of his Reason as the
voice of God within him, or conscience, from his own
idea of his "other soul," or genius; see above, p. 75.
But we do not know for certain that it was presented to
him in this way by Panaetius, though Posidonius (_ap.
Gal