Samoa

Seneca’s Etna: the Epicurean principle of multiple explanations, anti-sublimity and the Stoic sage (Ep. 79)1

“…3.27.1). 30 Last but not least, in the context of his explanations of earthquakes Seneca explicitly refers to this principle in connection with Democritus and Epicurus (QNat. 6.20.5): 31 [20,1] Ueniamus nunc ad eos qui omnia ista quae rettuli in causa esse dixerunt aut ex his plura.…”