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 1 I(1)   |      this essay was written (in or about A.D. 49), Paulinus
 2 I      |         that they drag out five or ten lifetimes,4 but that
 3 II     |   inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own;
 4 II     |  pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their
 5 III    |       upon your hundredth year, or are even beyond it; come
 6 III    |       you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.
 7 IV     |      from without should assail or shatter, Fortune of its
 8 V      |        be restful in prosperity or patient in adversity—how
 9 VII    |      busied with unjust hatreds or with unjust wars, these
10 VII    |      much is taken up in giving or receiving bail, how much
11 VII    |      whether you call them evil or good, do not allow them
12 VII    |       their throngs of clients, or their pleadings in court,
13 VII    |       their pleadings in court, or their other glorious miseries: "
14 VII    |       because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived
15 VIII   |      they hire out their labour or service or effort. But no
16 VIII   |         their labour or service or effort. But no one sets
17 VIII   |       at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace.
18 IX     |       day. Even as conversation or reading or deep meditation
19 IX     |         conversation or reading or deep meditation on some
20 IX     |        same pace whether waking or sleeping; those who are
21 X      |      betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered, must
22 X      |        delay than the firmament or the stars, whose ever unresting
23 XII    |         own crowd of followers, or scornfully in someone else'
24 XII    |   against someone else's doors, or whom the praetor's hammer23
25 XII    |       engrossed; in their villa or on their couch, in the midst
26 XII(23)|   public auction where captured or confiscated goods were put
27 XII    |         restored to their place or thinning ones drawn from
28 XII    |         he really did not know, or if he pretended not to know
29 XII(26)|    Actors in the popular mimes, or low farces, that were often
30 XIII   |        of their life over chess or ball or the practice of
31 XIII   |         life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their
32 XIII   |  Ulysses had, whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written
33 XIII   |        Roman general to do this or that; Duilius was the first
34 XIII   |      the plebeians had seceded, or because the birds had not
35 XIII   |   either crammed with falsehood or are of the same sort? For
36 XIV    |        be who either from sleep or self-indulgence or rudeness
37 XIV    |        sleep or self-indulgence or rudeness will keep them
38 XIV    |         meet with them by night or by day. ~
39 XV     |         need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit; the more
40 XV     |        has commanded by decrees or reared in works of stone,
41 XVI    |        dispose of their leisure or to drag out the time. And
42 XVI    | exhibition\b is been announced, or when they are waiting for
43 XVI    |         time of some other show or amusement, they want to
44 XVI    |         in the arms of a harlot or in wine! It is this also
45 XVII   |      whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes
46 XVIII  |      not summon you to slothful or idle inaction, or to drown
47 XVIII  |      slothful or idle inaction, or to drown all your native
48 XVIII  |      left for at any rate seven or eight days while he was
49 XIX    |        either by the dishonesty or the neglect of those who
50 XIX    |  tallies in weight and measure, or whether you enter upon these