concept
Stoicism
also: Stoici
The Stoic philosophical school, austere and rationalist; the 'little Stoic tracts' among silk cushions mock a hypocrite's pretended high-mindedness.
Reading notes
- The Epodes §8 Stoic tracts
Treatises of the austere Stoic school; their presence amid the old woman's silk cushions mocks her pretended high-mindedness.