14; De Vit.beat.

24.] [Footnote 55: Ep.

55, 9.] [Footnote 56: Ibid.

28; De Oti Sapientis, 31.] He is to be regarded rather as a wealthy, eminent, and successful Roman, who devoted most of his leisure to moral philosophy, than as a real philosopher by habit and profession.

And in this point of view his very inconsistencies have their charm, as illustrating his ardent, impulsive, imaginative temperament.