What cosmopolitanism meant in practical terms was unclear, for the reasons already given—but Cicero thinks, at any rate in On Duties, a highly Stoic work , that our common human dignity entails some very strict limits on the reasons for going to war and the sort of conduct that is permissible in it. If a great man has fallen and remains great as he lies prostrate, he is no more despised than the ruins of a temple are trampled underfoot—a temple which the devout treat as reverently as when it still stood. His history of the civil wars which does not survive celebrated the republican side, and was the basis for the charges that Seneca refers to. He uses it. However, in my opinion, in B.
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