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 1 I    |       in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner,
 2 II   |     plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new;
 3 III  |    fiftieth year I shall retire into leisure, my sixtieth year
 4 VI   |        in words, they fall back into their usual round. Heaven
 5 VI   |     thousand years, will shrink into the merest span; your vices
 6 VII  |       But those who are plunged into the pleasures of the belly
 7 VII  |      pleasures of the belly and into lust bear a stain that is
 8 VII  |        is dishonourable. Search into the hours of all these people,15
 9 VII  |         is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the
10 X    |     choose to divide my subject into heads with their separate
11 X    |         over.   Life is divided into three periods—that which
12 X    |  tranquil has the power to roam into all the parts of its life;
13 X    |      And so their life vanishes into an abyss; and as it does
14 X    |         how much water you pour into a vessel, if there is no
15 X(21)|      Hades forever poured water into a vessel with a perforated
16 XII  |         herds of his pack-mules into pairs of the same age and
17 XII  |         if it does not all fall into its proper ringlets! Who
18 XII  | designed to be straightforward, into the meanderings of some
19 XII  |      skill the birds are carved into portions all according to
20 XII  |         their evils follow them into all the privacies of life
21 XIII |        to the Greeks to inquire into what number of rowers Ulysses
22 XIII |   excuse also those who inquire into this—who first induced the
23 XIII |       be that these things pass into oblivion lest hereafter
24 XIV  |       from darkness and brought into light; from no age are we
25 XIV  |       Nature allows us to enter into fellowship with every age,
26 XV   |      intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted;
27 XV   |    mortality—nay, of turning it into immortality. Honours, monuments,
28 XV   |     long by combining all times into one. ~
29 XVI  |        emotions which rush them into the very things they dread;
30 XVIII|       lived, at length withdraw into a peaceful harbour. Think
31 XIX  |        corn from oversea poured into the granaries, unhurt either