Following Brennan's analysis here. Brennan, The Stoic Life, pp. 194–8. Especially Epistles, LXX. Cicero, Duties, III.x.42. Cicero, Duties, I.20–1 and Ends, III.67. Brennan, The Stoic Life, p. 222. Brennan, The Stoic Life, p. 224.
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