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Quintus Sextius

1st Century BCE


Pythagoras Sotion…taught me, why Pythagoras abstained from animal food, and why after him Sextius: their reasons were different, but, both, very great. Sextius thought, that there was food enough for man in the world without shedding blood; and that the taking pleasure in butchering helpless animals, only inspired men with cruelty: he added hereunto, that luxury was not to be encouraged, and supposed of meats, and particularly such as are foreign to our constitutions are by no means a preservative of health, but the contrary.


Seneca [5bce-65ce], Epistle CVIII, The Right Use of Reading or Hearing the Philosophers in The Epistles of Lucius Annæus Seneca, translated by Thomas Morrell, in two volumes (London, 1786; Digitized by Google, 2006).

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Animal Welfare-Animal Rights Activists-Advocates-Quotes
Against Cruelty to Animals
Mythical & Divine Origin:
[Divine] Manu
[Mythical] Triptolemus
Before the Common Era (BC): Cave Paintings
Ancient ReligionsJainism,
Historic India—The doctrines of Ahimsa & Vegetarianism evolve.
[8th C. BCE] Hesiod
[Ancient Athens] Apreopagites
[621 BCE] Draco
[c599-510 BCE] Siddhartha, Sakyamuni, Buddha
[c 599-527 BCE] Mahavira
[c552-496 BCE] Pythagoras
[484-425 BCE] Herodotus
[c492-432 BCE] Empedocles
[c396-314 BCE] Xenocrates
[d. 276 BCE] Polemon
[c273-232 BCE] King Asoka
Ancient Animal Rights Law
[106-43 BCE] Cicero
[c94-49 BCE] Lucretius
[1st C. BCE]Quintus Sextius
[70-19 BCE] Virgil
Common Era (AD):
[43 BCE - 17 CE] Ovid
[1st C. BCE-CE]Sotion
[c 4 BCE-65] Seneca
[23-79] Pliny the Elder
[c46-120] Plutarch
[d. c215 ]Clement of Alexandria
[2nd or 3rd C.] Sextus Empiricus
[c160-230] Tertullian
[205-270] Plotinus
[c245-305] Porphyry


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Antiquity-Middle Ages
Ancient Animal Rights Law
Early Prohibitions-Middle Ages
[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

Renaissance
Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation
[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
Articles-Letters-Enlightenment
Pleas for Laws to Protect Animals
[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
Articles-Letters-Romantic Age
Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
Articles-Letters-Victorian Age
Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
Articles-Letters-Early 20th
Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period