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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Compiled by David Widger
CONTENTS
## L. ANNAEUS SENECA ON BENEFITS
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
## TWO TRAGEDIES OF SENECA
OCTAVIA PRAETEXTA (In Latin)
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF OCTAVIA
## MORALS OF A HAPPY LIFE, BENEFITS, ANGER AND CLEMENCY
## THE TRAGEDIES OF SENECA
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
L. ANNAEUS SENECA,
ON BENEFITS
By Seneca
Edited by Aubrey Stewart
CONTENTS
PREFACE
DETAILED CONTENTS
L. A. SENECA, ON BENEFITS
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV.
BOOK V.
BOOK VI.
BOOK VII.
TWO TRAGEDIES OF SENECA
MEDEA AND THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY
By Seneca
Rendered Into English Verse By Ella Isabel Harris
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION vii
Sources of Senecan Influence on English Drama.
Tendencies of Senecan Influence as felt by English Drama.
Direct Borrowings from Senecan Tragedies.
MEDEA 1
THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY 45
SENECA'S MORALS
OF A HAPPY LIFE, BENEFITS, ANGER AND CLEMENCY
Translated By Sir Roger L'estrange
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TO THE READER.
OF SENECA'S WRITINGS.
SENECA'S LIFE AND DEATH.
SENECA OF BENEFITS.
CHAPTER I. OF BENEFITS IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER II. SEVERAL SORTS OF BENEFITS.
CHAPTER III. A SON MAY OBLIGE HIS FATHER, AND A SERVANT HIS MASTER.
CHAPTER IV. IT IS THE INTENTION, NOT THE MATTER, THAT MAKES THE BENEFIT.
CHAPTER V. THERE MUST BE JUDGMENT IN A BENEFIT, AS WELL AS MATTER AND INTENTION; AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CHOICE OF THE PERSON.
CHAPTER VI. THE MATTER OF OBLIGATIONS, WITH ITS CIRCUMSTANCES.
CHAPTER VII. THE MANNER OF OBLIGING.
CHAPTER VIII. THE DIFFERENCE AND VALUE OF BENEFITS.
CHAPTER IX. AN HONEST MAN CANNOT BE OUTDONE IN COURTESY.
CHAPTER X. THE QUESTION DISCUSSED, WHETHER OR NOT A MAN MAY GIVE OR RETURN A BENEFIT TO HIMSELF?
CHAPTER XI. HOW FAR ONE MAN MAY BE OBLIGED FOR A BENEFIT DONE TO ANOTHER.
CHAPTER XII. THE BENEFACTOR MUST HAVE NO BY-ENDS.
CHAPTER XIII. THERE ARE MANY CASES WHEREIN A MAN MAY BE MINDED OF A BENEFIT, BUT IT IS VERY RARELY TO BE CHALLENGED, AND NEVER TO BE UPBRAIDED.
CHAPTER XIV. HOW FAR TO OBLIGE OR REQUITE A WICKED MAN.
CHAPTER XV. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE PARTS AND DUTIES OF THE BENEFACTOR.
CHAPTER_XVI. HOW THE RECEIVER OUGHT TO BEHAVE HIMSELF.
CHAPTER_XVII. OF GRATITUDE.
CHAPTER_XVIII. GRATITUDE MISTAKEN.
CHAPTER XIX. OF INGRATITUDE.
CHAPTER XX. THERE CAN BE NO LAW AGAINST INGRATITUDE.
SENECA OF A HAPPY LIFE.
CHAPTER I. OF A HAPPY LIFE, AND WHEREIN IT CONSISTS.