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 1 I     |     to animals that they drag out five or ten lifetimes,4
 2 II    |   some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in
 3 VI    |    the Gracchi, seeing no way out for his policy, which he
 4 VII   |       by great prosperity cry out at times in the midst of
 5 VII   |      his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were
 6 VII   |     Mistress Fortune may deal out the rest as she likes; his
 7 VIII  |       and for these they hire out their labour or service
 8 IX    |       greatest of bards cries out, and, as if inspired with
 9 X     |     to settle upon, it passes out through the chinks and holes
10 XI    |   that they are being dragged out of life, and not merely
11 XI    |   merely leaving it. They cry out that they have been fools,
12 XII   |      length been let in drive out from the law-court, those
13 XII   |  wrangling of lads? Who sorts out the herds of his pack-mules
14 XII   |     stripped of whatever grew out the night before? while
15 XII   | lopped off, if any of it lies out of order, if it does not
16 XII   |    see how anxiously they set out their silver plate, how
17 XII   |    mind that they cannot find out by themselves whether they
18 XIV   |       from no age are we shut out, we have access to all ages,
19 XIV   |       that are very far apart—out of a city so huge and torn
20 XIV   |       rudeness will keep them out! How many who, when they
21 XIV   |       many will avoid passing out through a hall that is crowded
22 XV    |     no one of these will wear out your years, but each will
23 XVI   |      their leisure or to drag out the time. And so they strive
24 XVII  |      prayers that have turned out well we must make still
25 XX(45)|               i.e., long kept out of his inheritance. ~~
26 XX    |    ordered himself to be laid out on his bed and to be mourned