 What, then, are benefits or favors as Seneca uses the term? Roughly speaking, one can think of beneficia as any kind of help a person might offer to another person qua member of a group, such that this strengthens the cohesion of the group and affirms or creates social bonds. Examples include: to give money or other material assistance, to use one’s influence in someone’s favor or in favor of someone’s family member, to advance someone’s health or personal safety, to save someone (her child, etc.) from calamity, to get someone out of prison, to console, to speak on someone’s behalf, to further someone’s career, to teach and educate someone, to instruct or advise someone.