The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, both morrall and naturall Containing, 1. His bookes of benefites. 2. His epistles. 3. His booke of prouidence. 4. Three bookes of anger. 5. Two bookes of clemencie. 6. His booke of a blessed life. 7. His booke of the tranquilitie of the minde. 8. His booke of the constancie of a wiseman. 9. His booke of the shortnesse of life. 10. Two bookes of consolation to Martia. 11. Three bookes of consolation to Heluia. 12. His booke of consolation to Polibius. 13. His seuen bookes of naturall questions. Translated by Tho. Lodge, D. in Physicke.

CHAP. IIII.

AYre so is a part of the world,* 1.1 yea and a necessary part, for this is it that vniteth both heauen and earth, that so separateth the lowest from the highest, that notwithstanding they are ioyned by it. He separateth them because hee is in the middest of ••hem, and vniteth them, because both of them by his meanes are a∣greede together. All that which is sent him from the earth, he communicateth with the heauens. Againe, hee imparteth to terrestriall things, the efficacy of celestiall bodies, which so call I a part of the world, as I doe beasts and plants, for both these kinds of beastes and plants are a part o•• the world, becau••e they haue beene created as things necessa••y to perfect the whole, and because the whole cannot consist without them, but one liuing creature and one plant is as it were a part, for although it should die, yet that which is cut off, is of the whole: but ayre as I haue said cleaueth both to heauen and earth, it is borne both and with the one and the other, but that hath vnity, whatsoeuer is a na∣tiue part of any thing, for nothing is borne without vnity.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The aire is a ne∣cessary part of the world.