[225] Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 3 B.C.-A.D. 65), statesman and philosopher.  His twelve so-called Dialogues are Stoic sermons of a practical and earnest character.

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[226] Med., III, 2.

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[227] Ibid., V, 5.

[228] Ibid., VIII, 34.

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[229] Ibid., IV, 3.

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[230] Ibid., I, 17.

[231] Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian.  Roman Emperors, 14-37 A.D., 37-41 A.D., 54-68 A.D., and 81-96 A.D.

[232] Med., IV, 28.

[233] Ibid., V, 11.

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[234] Ibid., X, 8.

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[235] Ibid., IV, 32.

[236] Ibid., V, 33.

[237] Ibid., IX, 30.

[238] Ibid., VII, 55.

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[239] Ibid., VI, 48.

[240] Ibid., IX, 3.

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[241] Matt.  XVII, 17.

[242] Med., X, 15.

[243] Ibid., VI, 45.

[244] Ibid., V, 8.

[245] Ibid., VII, 55.

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[246] Ibid., IV, 1.

[247] Ibid., X, 31.

[248] Ibid.

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[249] Alogi.  An ancient sect that rejected the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St. John.

[250] Gnosis.  Knowledge of spiritual truth or of matters commonly conceived to pertain to faith alone, such as was claimed by the Gnostics, a heretical Christian sect of the second century.

[251] The correct reading is tendebantque (AEneid, VI, 314), which Arnold has altered to apply to the present case.

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[252] From On The Study of Celtic Literature, London, 1867, chap.  VI.  It was previously published in the Cornhill Magazine, vols.  XIII and XIV, March-July, 1866.  In the Introduction to the book Arnold says:  “The following remarks on the study of Celtic literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me last year and the year before in the chair of poetry at Oxford.”  The chapter is slightly abridged in the present selection.

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[253] Paradise Lost, III, 32-35.