Chapter 14 SENECA MORALE.

--"e vidi Orfeo

Tullio, e Livio, e Seneca morale."-Dante.

Fair fruits grew for Seneca in his exile; and perhaps he owed some of his exalted philosophy rather to his Corsican solitude than to the teachings of an Attalus or a Socio. In the Letter of Consolation to his mother, he writes thus at the close:-You must believe me happy and cheerful,