...Seneca's bitter accusation against the inhabitants of the country in which he spent eight years : ' Their first law is to revenge themselves, their second...third to lie, and their fourth to deny the gods.' Without going so far as Gregorovius, who roundly describes the philosophic statesman as a rogue, we...

...banishment to Corsica, was perhaps not in a frame of mind to judge his new friends fairly, but his taunt:4 "Their first law is to revenge themselves, their second...third to lie, and their fourth to deny the gods," has come down to us in history as the dictum of a great and famous man. Whether it could be taken as...