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 1 I       |             granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly
 2 I       |           rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a
 3 I       |          man, though he is born for so many and such great achievements.
 4 I       |          aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive
 5 I       |           not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack
 6 I       |         guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for
 7 II      |            while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that
 8 III     |       themselves most prodigal. And so I should like to lay hold
 9 III     |           work you have achieved in so long a life, how many have
10 IV      |             the pleasure of words." So desirable a thing did leisure
11 IV      |            a rupture somewhere. And so he longed for leisure, in
12 V       |         will the wise man resort to so lowly a term, never will
13 VI      |             felt in the law-courts, so powerfully, indeed, that
14 VI      |          and public misfortune. And so it was too late for him
15 VII(14) |           designating those who are so absorbed in the interests
16 VII     |             mere boys have mastered so thoroughly that they could
17 VII     |          exchange for his time. And so that man had time enough,
18 VII     |        desire and yet can hold. And so there is no reason for you
19 VIII    |       possessions in order to live! So great is the inconsistency
20 VIII    |           started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will
21 IX      |          and slow though time flies so fast? The poet speaks to
22 IX      |            was approaching it, just so with this unceasing and
23 X       |           turn and look behind. And so their life vanishes into
24 X       |             to receive and hold it, so with time—it makes no difference
25 X       |         Present time is very brief, so brief, indeed, that to some
26 X       |       present time alone, and it is so brief that it cannot be
27 XI      |            unused; the whole of it, so to speak, yields income.
28 XI      |           speak, yields income. And so, however small the amount
29 XII     |          swim, when they must dine; so enfeebled are they by the
30 XII     |             come forth in this age, so clever in this one direction,
31 XII     |         that there is anyone who is so lost in luxury that he takes
32 XIII    |          minds! When he was casting so many troops of wretched
33 XIII    |   proclaiming war between creatures so ill matched, when he was
34 XIII    |       matched, when he was shedding so much blood before the eyes
35 XIII(29)|        reports that the people were so moved by pity that they
36 XIV     |             far apart—out of a city so huge and torn by such varied
37 XVI     |           to drag out the time. And so they strive for something
38 XVI     |           nights which they pay for so dearly fail to seem all
39 XVII    |        possessed, and they have not so much delighted in the greatness
40 XVII    | Carthaginians before he is ripe for so great an undertaking; victorious
41 XVIII   |                          XVIII. And so, my dearest Paulinus, tear
42 XVIII   |             have hitherto performed so energetically, to occupy
43 XX      |                             XX. And so when you see a man often