Liberalis
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
my Liberalis · best of men · my excellent Liberalis · our friend Liberalis
in the texts
On Benefits
The addressee of Seneca's treatise on benefits
1 Among the many and various errors of those who live recklessly and without reflection, I could name almost nothing, my excellent Liberalis, more unworthy than this:
1 Certain questions, Liberalis, best of men, are pursued only for the exercise of the wit and lie always outside life;
The remaining matters this book brings together, and, the material being exhausted, I look about, not for what I am to say, but for what I have not said;
Letters to Lucilius
Seneca's friend, native of Lyons, deeply grieved by the fire that destroyed his home city; recipient of Seneca's philosophical consolation.
Our friend Liberalis is now downcast at the news of the fire by which the colony of Lyons was burned up.
All these things bow down the feeling of our friend Liberalis, who stands unbent and erect against his own misfortunes;
These, then, and comforts of this kind I offer to our friend Liberalis, who burns with an incredible love of his country, which perhaps has been consumed only that it may be raised again to something better.