Works

Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.

Checked on 2026-10-31

Table and records Streams

TraditionAll (1)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (1)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)

GenreAll (1)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (0)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (1)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)

FormAll (1)Prose (1)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)

LanguageAll (4)Arabic (0)Persian (0)Greek (3)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (1)Hebrew (0)Other (0)

PeriodAll (8)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (1)Late antique (0)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (0)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (0)6th century AH (2)7th century AH (3)8th century AH (1)9th century AH (0)10th century AH (1)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)

In the readerAll (1)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (1)

1 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼	Author	Genre	Period	Language	Status
On ClemencyDe clementia	Seneca	Counsel and governance	Roman imperial	Latin	Listed only

Records

On Clemency

De clementia

Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · Roman imperial · Listed only

Clemency makes power secure;

Attribution

authentic not yet checked

Date

55-56 CE, Rome (basis: date of composition) not yet checked

Editions

Prechac (Budé) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

Translations

Cooper and Procopé (CUP, Seneca: Moral and Political Essays 1995) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked

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