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Rufus, Musonius. the Roman Socrates. Yale University Press YALE CLASSICAL STUDIES EDITED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS BY ALFRED R. BELLINGER LAMPSON PROFESSOR OF LATIN VOLUME TEN NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press MDCCCCXLVII COPYRIGHT 1947 BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PAGE Musonius Rufus " The Roman Socrates " CoRA E. LuTz Plato's Theory of Natural Law 151 JOSEPH p. MAGUIRE The Archives of the Temple of Soknobraisis at Bacchias 179 ELIZABETH H. GILLIAM MUSONIUS RUFUS "THE ROMAN SOCRATES" CORA E. LUTZ MUSONIUS RUFUS "THE ROMAN SOCRATES" CORDING to Philostratus,t writing a century and a };_ half after the event, once when Musonius was lying chained in·the prison of Nero, his friend the notorious Apollonius of Tyana secretly communicated with him, inquiring what he might do to help release him. Musonius' reply was a brief acknowledgment of Apollonius' thoughtfulness and a polite but firm refusal of assistance. Thereupon Apollonius answered in one terse sentence, "Socrates the Athenian refused to be released by his friends, and consequently went to trial and was put to death." To which. Musonius answered, " Socrates was put to death because he did not take the trouble to defend him­ self, but I intend to make my defence. Farewell." A generation later, Origen, in his apology for Christianity, the treatise Contra Celsum,2 named the two men who in the judgment of some people stood out as models of the highest type of life, the two saints, as it were, of the pagan world, Socrates and Musonius. In the fourth century, the emperor Julian wrote a letter 8 to commend the high-priest Theodorus for his meretorious be­ haviour when he was insolently abused by the governor of Greece. Among other compliments, he said that Theodorus' complete lack of resentment was comparable to Socrates' equa­ nimity under an unjust condemnation, while his desire to aid the city where he had suffered could be compared to Musonius' generous efforts in behalf of Gyara where he had been exiled. 1 The Life of Apollonius of Tyana IV, 46. Hense includes in his edition of Musonius (C. Musonius Rufus, Reliquiae pp. 142 f.) the four letters found in Philostratus; they are also published by R. Hercher in Epiatolograpki Graeci, Paris, 1878, pp. 127 f. There is no reason to consider the letters genuine. Cf. Schmid-Stiihlin, Guchichte de:r Griechiacken Litte:ratur, Munich, 1920, VII, II, 1, p. 857. • III, 66 (P. Koetschau, Origenu We:rk I, p. 259, ll. 19-U in Die Griechiachen Ckriatlichen Sckriftateller, Leipzig, 1899) . elO'I "{4p Ka.! Ka.r<i. 'll"iiO'a.JJ tf>iXoO"otf>la.s a.CpeO'&JJ Ka.l Ka.r<i. riw IJeioJJ :1\o"(oJJ ol roO"oiiroJJ p.era.{JefJATJKEJJa.& IO"ropovp.eJJo&, i!JO"rc a.llrovs E"(KE'iO'IJa.l 7ra.p6.liel"(l'a. roii aplO'rou {Jlou. Ka.l tf>epouO'l TillES ;,ptbtA~JI p.ep 'l'liJI 'Hpa.KXea. Ka.! riw 'OliuO'O'ea., .,.,;;, ll' IJO'.,.epo" ro" ~,Kpa..,. 71 ,, .,.,;;, lie xBes Ka.! 7rptb71 , "(E"(oJJ6r"'" roJJ MouO"tbJJ&oJJ. 8 "Letter to the High-priest Theodorus" 16 (W. C. Wright, The Works of the Emperor Julian, London, 1928, III, p. 88). The authenticity of this letter, dated about 862, has not been completely established. Cf. op. cit. ill, p. lxii. 8 4 CORA E. LUTZ In these three instances, the names of the Greek and the Roman philosophers are linked together as preeminent examples of men who professed the highest ethical standards and lived lives in harmony with their teachings. From these implied comparisons, given simply, without any explanatory material to lend them persuasive force, one may suspect that the comparison was not at all strained, but was in fact one which was current and familiar. And now, centuries later, when much of the material which might have made the comparison more obvious has been lost, a modern scholar does not hesitate to call Musonius " the Roman Socrates." 4 To us who might find it difficult to name a point in our lives when the name Socrates was new to us, and who have only a vague recollection of Musonius as one of the Stoic martyrs in the pages of Tacitus, the juxtaposition of the names may seem extravagant. The obscurity which has dimmed the name and reputation of Musonius is one of the unfortunate accidents of historical record, for even the extant testimonia of ancient writers, meagre as they are, lead us to the conclusion that Muso­ nius was a much more compelling personage than his surviving works permit us to suspect, in fact one of the most significant figures of his age. Although a professor of Stoic doctrine,6 Musonius was by no means restricted by sectarian boundaries; his teachings were his own humanitarian interpretation of the fundamental principles regulating human conduct, truly the fruit of a good life and the expression of a great personality.8 In the mere fact of standing forth as the spiritual and ethical leader and "apostle of moral liberty" 7 to his own and succeed­ ing generations, Musonius is rightly compared to Socrates. But the exactness of the comparison becomes vivid and impressive when one notes how numerous are the points of similarity sug­ gested by a consideration of the life of Musonius, his aims and methods, and the content arid temper of his teachings. • R. Hirzel, Der Dialog, Leipzig, 1895, II, p. 289. "In einer solchen Umgebung nach solchen Vorgiingern wird uns das Auftreten des riimischen Sokrates verstiindlich. Denn so diirfen wir wohl den Musonius Rufus nennen." Cf. 0. Halbauer, De Diatribia Epicteti, Leipzig, 1911, p. 27, note 2: " Quo iure Hirzel Musonium Socratem Romanum 1appellat."; also C. P. Parker, "Musonius the Etruscan," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology VII (1896), p. 129: " The man who had lived the life revealed in the Stobaeus extracts might well be set alongside of Socrates." • Tacitus first labels Musonius a Stoic. Cf. Hiat. III, 81. • The distinctively individual character of Socrates' doctrine and the fact that, to an unprecedented degree, his own personality and his teachings were bound together are emphasized too frequently to require repetition. • Cf. W. Jaeger, Paideia, N.Y., 1948, II, p. 18. MUSONIUS RUFUS 5 Perhaps the least significant, if the most definite, point of similarity is that, though both men spent their lives teaching, they were so indifferent to preserving their thoughts that they made little effort to commit them to writing.8 There is a legend of some yprip.JML-ra. 9 of Musonius, but it is almost as unfounded as the tale of Socrates' writings.10 Apparently some contemporary 8 Hense (Muaonius p. ix) expresses the generally accepted opinion of modem scholarship when he says, " Ipse autem Musonius libros, quantum scimus, non composuit." Cf. H. von Amim (Dio von Pruaa, Berlin, I898, p. I76) : " Auch Musonius ... hat, soviel wir wissen, eigene Schriften nicht verfasst."; Schmid­ Stahlin (Geach. di'JT' Griech. Lit., VII, II, I, p. 857): "Geschrieben hat er nichts."; K. von Fritz (" Musonius " in Pauly's Real-Encyclopiidie, Stuttgart, I988, XXXI, p. 894): "Von Schriften des M., die dieser selbst verfasst und herausgegeben hiitte, hat sich keinerlei Nachricht erhalten." Professor G. L. Hendrickson, however, has called to my attention some im­ portant evidence, hitherto unobserved, which immediately necessitates a qualifica­ tion of the dogmatic affirmations of Hense and his followers. The ninth treatise on the popular theme 'll"epl 1/Jv"fiis is introduced in the same way as the spoken discourses ( 1/Jv"fdBos Be Ttllos 6Bvpop.EIIov liTt 1/JeV"fet) , but the entire body of the work seems to represent a letter which was written by Musonius to a friend who was living in exile. Even though the original letter has been incorporated by Lucius into an essay, one can still see certain epistolary formulae which he neglected to alter. So, for example, at 74, 8 he says, uil B' el'll"t! p.ot, eli eTa.ipe and at 74, 2I, 'll"pos ue ef'll"otp.t u., and at 76, 2, 'll"pos ue "Xt!"tw Jlii11, all addressed to one individual instead of to a general audience. Therefore, one is obliged to concede that there was at least one letter written by Musonius included in the Corpus Musonianum of Lucius. Since this does represent an original letter from the hand of Musonius, it is of unusual importance, for we may consider it a more direct expression of Musonius' feelings than the other discourses. It also raises the question whether others of the discourses may not be derived from a written source. See note 22. • The ancient tradition for writings by Musonius springs from a statement in Suidas under Mova..tllltOS (I805): M"fOL Btat/Jopot 1/Jt"Xouo<flla.s ex.6p.e110t, Ka.l E'll"tii'To"Xa.l; from a passage in Eunapius' Lives of the Sophista (454) where "fpdp.p.a.Ta. are attributed to Demetrius, Menippus, and Musonius,. though this may be a later Musonius; and from the e'll"tii'To"Xa.l quoted by Philostratus (ApoUonius IV, 46). The letters in Philostratus were identified by A. Wester­ mann (De Epiatolarum Sci-iptoribua Graecis Commentationis, Leipzig, I854, pp. 6 f.) with the E'll"tii'To"Xa.l mentioned by Suidas. There is also a long letter reputed to have been written by Musonius to Pancratides on the subject of the education of his sons. (Cf. Hense, Musonius pp. I87-I42 and R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci pp. 40I-404). It also is considered spurious. Cf. Schmid-Stiihlin, Geach.
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