Sublime

the state had only a derivative authority as a minister of justice under Christ and His word. The political source of law, then, traced back, not to Caesar, but ultimately to Christ and God’s law.1

Après la mort de son père survenue dans sa prime enfance, il fut remarqué, protégé, favorisé par l'empereur Hadrien. Peu avant de mourir, en 138, celui-ci, pour assurer sa succession, adopta Antonin, l'oncle par alliance du futur Marc Aurèle, en lui demandant d'adopter celui-ci et en même temps Lucius Verus, le fils d'Aelius Caesar, un personnage q

Lucilius, the addressee of both the Natural Questions and Letters to Lucilius. Little is known about Lucilius himself. Seneca is our only source for his life, and the letters do not give much substantial information about him.

Tiberius Gracchus’ land reform, popular as it might have been to poor Romans, was a provocation to rich Italians whose ‘public land’ was removed, while excluding poor Italians from the distributions.