O dobročinstvima (Seneka) – razlika između verzija

Ovo je izvrsna rasprava o načinu na koji treba pružati usluge i o dužnostima davatelja i primatelja. Obrada teme nije vrlo metodična, ali je vrlo cjelovita. Sedmo poglavlje četvrte knjige sadrži upečatljiv odlomak o prirodi i božanstvu: "Što je drugo [[priroda]] nego [[bog]], nego božansko biće i razum koji svojom pomoći u traganju prebiva u svijetu i svim njegovim dijelovima?"{{sfn|Smith|1873|loc=s.v. "L. Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger or the Younger Seneca"}}

 

Najraniji sačuvani primjerak teksta potječe s kraja 8. ili početka 9. stoljeća.<ref name=" WE Trevor ">{{cite book |url=http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/614/2/trevor10Phd.pdf |author=WE Trevor |title=Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and it's articulation in early modern drama |publisher=[[University of Birmingham]] |date=2009 |page=40|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref><ref name=" M.I. Colish ">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JokeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA17 |author=M.I. Colish |title=The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, Volume 1 |publisher=BRILL |date=1985 |isbn=9004072675 |pages=17–18|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref> Nakon osnutka, [[Opatija Lorsch|samostan Lorsch]] stekao je [[arhetip]] djela negdje oko 850. godine,<ref name=" M von Albrecht ">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vjk4rkpr-SAC&pg=PA1192 |author=M von Albrecht |author-link=Michael von Albrecht |title=A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius : with Special Regard to Its Influence on World Literature |publisher=BRILL (Editor GL Schmeling)|date=1997 |isbn=9004107118 |page=1192|access-date=17.3.2015}}</ref> koji je napisan negdje u [[Italija|Italiji]] (vjerojatno na području [[Milano|Milana]]<ref name="Lentano205">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jqOAgAAQBAJ |author=M Lentano |title=Brill's Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and Dramatist |publisher=BRILL |date=2013 |isbn=978-9004217089 |page=205|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref>) oko 800. godine, pri čemu je dio teksta poznat kao ''codex Nazarianus'',<ref name=" L.D.Reynolds, M.T.Griffin, E.Fantham ">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ |author=L.D.Reynolds, M.T.Griffin, E.Fantham (edited by S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, E. Eidinow)|title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2012 |isbn=978-0199545568 |page=93|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref> (trenutno u Palatnskoj zbirci [[Vatikanska knjižnica|Vatikanske knjižnice]]<ref name=" WM Lindsay ">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28pAcp7hY7gC |author=WM Lindsay |author-link=Wallace Martin Lindsay |title=Collectanea Varia : Palaeographia Latina |publisher=[[St. Andrews University]] publications, Georg Olms Verlag |date=1925 |isbn=3487405385 |page=7|access-date=16.3.2015}}</ref>), a nakon što su napravljene brojne kopije preko samostana u [[Loire (departman)|Loire|Loiri]].<ref name="lapidge">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7mcPcSuUa8EC |author1-last=Lapidge|author1-first=Michael|contribution=The Stoic Inheritance |title=A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date=1992 |isbn=0521429072 |pages=93–94|editor1-last=Dronke|editor1-first=Peter|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref><ref name=" L. D. Reynolds, N G Wilson ">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXwRAgAAQBAJ |author1=L. D. Reynolds |author2=N G Wilson |title=Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date= 2013 |isbn=978-0199686339 |page=100|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref> Djelo se potom proširilo diljem zapadne Europe.<ref name=" P. Stacey ">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3sgpPbqHoEC |author=P. Stacey |title=Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince |publisher=Cambridge University Pres |date=2007 |isbn=978-1139463065 |page=81|access-date=14.3.2015}}</ref>