Laudator Temporis Acti

Lucilius 1207-1208 Warmington = 1337-1338 Marx = 1353-1354 Krenkel (tr. E.H. Warmington):

... and besides all this, thinking our country's interests to be foremost of all,
our parents' next, and then thirdly and lastly our own.

commoda praeterea patriai prima putare,
deinde parentum, tertia iam postremaque nostra.

Friedrich Marx ad loc.:

In duobus extremis uersibus 1337. 1338 Panaetii quandam doctrinam deprehendimus: conf Cic. de off. I 58 'Sed si contentio quaedam et comparatio fiat, ... principes sint patria, et parentes, quorum beneficiis maximis obligati sumus, proximi liberi, totaque domus ... deinceps bene conuenientes propinqui' e. q. s. Parentes post deos posuerunt ueteres Attici: Euripid. fragm. 853 N edit. II τρεῖς εἰσιν ἀρεταὶ τὰς χρεών σ᾿ ἀσκεῖν, τέκνον· θεούς τε τιμᾶν, τούς τε φύσαντας γονεῖς, νόμους τε κοινοὺς Ἑλλάδος ubi Nauckius adfert [Phocylid.] 8 πρώτα θεόν τίμα, μετέπειτα δε σείο γονήας. [Isocr.] Demon. 4, 13 πρῶτον μὲν οὖν εὐσέβει τὰ πρὸς τοὺς θεούς ... τοιοῦτος γίγνου περὶ τοὺς γονεῖς, οἵους ἂν εὔξαιο περὶ σεαυτὸν γενέσθαι τοὺς σεαυτοῦ παῖδας. Auson. epiced. in patrem p. 21, 1 Peiperi 'Post deum semper patrem colui secundamque reuerentiam genitori meo debui'. Phaedr. app. VI p. 127 Hau. 'audite gentes, Delii monitus dei: pietatem colite, uota superis reddite, patriam, parentes, natos, castas coniuges defendite armis' e.q. s. 'Quae sit cognoscere uirtus' Romani hominis esse pronuntiat Vergilius eclog. IV 27: deorum honorem omnino omisit poeta philosophus.

Andrew R. Dyck on Cicero, De Officiis 1.17.58:

Lucilius should perhaps be seen as representing, not Panaetian influence, but an independent (though similar) Roman tradition; cf. Wendy J. Raschke, "The Virtue of Lucilius," Latomus 49 (1990), 352-69, esp. 352-53.

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