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12 But some think that the StoicsVon Arnim, Stoic. Vet. Frag., iii. p. 164, Frag. 655. Cf. Moralia, 58 e; Horace, Sermones, i. 3. 124 ff. See also Siefert, op. cit., p. 54, note 2. are jesting when they hear that in their sect the wise man is termed not only prudent and just and brave, but also an orator, a poet, a general, a rich man, and a king; and then they count themselves worthy of all these titles, and if they fail to get them, are vexed. Yet even among the gods different gods hold different powers: one bears the epithet War-like, another Prophetic, another Gain-bringing; and Zeus Cf. Homer, Il., v. 428 ff. dispatches Aphrodite to marriages and nuptial chambers, on the ground that she has no part in deeds of war.