...this principal rule of the defeated #Jews spread in many countries of the world. #Philon [of Alexandria, ca. 15 BC - 40 AD] considered #Saturday as a feast of the whole world, however, it was with regret that #Seneca [1-65 AD] admitted that “the custom of these criminal people became so strong that it has covered the whole country.
According to #JosephFlavius, by the end of the 1st century there was no #Greek or barbarian city;...
"Raging with an inhuman desire to inflict pain in combat and shed blood in punishment, it cares nothing for itself provided it can harm the other: it throws itself upon the very weapons raised against it, hungry for a vengeance that will bring down the avenger too."
"You, #Bacchus [Dionysos], from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, perpetually young, you who frightens tigers with your vine-clad spear, and with a turban you bind your horned head." #Seneca, Phaedra 753
Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius – set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words, – that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and...
I. On Saving Time | Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter
Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius – set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words, – that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and...