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Quintus Sextius
Sextius
also: Sextius the Elder
Q. Sextius, founder of a Roman Stoic-Pythagorean school under Augustus and an influence on Seneca; source of the mirror remedy and the nightly self-examination.
Reading notes
- On Anger §2.36 Sextius
Q. Sextius, founder of a Roman philosophical school and influence on Seneca; source of the mirror remedy for anger.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.59.7 Sextius
Quintus Sextius the Elder, founder of an austere Roman philosophical school of the Augustan age (the Sextii); a Stoic-Pythagorean moralist who, as Seneca notes, wrote philosophy in Greek but lived by Roman discipline.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.73.12 Sextius
Quintus Sextius (1st c. BC), founder of a short-lived Roman philosophical school of Stoic and Pythagorean cast, much admired by Seneca; here for the maxim that Jupiter is no better than a good man, only longer-lasting.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §108.17 Sextius
Q. Sextius (1st c. BC), founder of an austere Roman philosophical school blending Stoic and Pythagorean ethics; Seneca admired the Sextii deeply.