On the writings of Fabianus
100:2
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
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Fabianus seems to me to have not so much an “efflux” as a “flow” of words: so copious is it, without confusion, and yet not without speed.
This is indeed what his style declares and announces—that he has not spent a long time in working his matter over and twisting it into shape.
But even supposing the facts are as you would have them; the man was building up character rather than words, and was writing those words for the mind rather than for the ear.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the writings of Fabianus
Location: Chapter 100, Section 2
Content:
2.
Fabianus seems to me to have not so much an “efflux” as a “flow” of words: so copious is it, without confusion, and yet not without speed.
This is indeed what his style declares and announces—that he has not spent a long time in working his matter over and twisting it into shape.
But even supposing the facts are as you would have them; the man was building up character rather than words, and was writing those words for the mind rather than for the ear.