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501 XVIII    |        better to have knowledge of the ledger of one's own life
502 XVIII    |          of one's own life than of the corn-market. Recall that
503 XVIII    |        most competent to cope with the greatest subjects, from
504 XVIII    |   honourable but hardly adapted to the happy life, and reflect
505 XVIII    |            in all your training in the liberal studies, extending
506 XVIII    |       horses, and who ever hampers the fleetness of such high-born
507 XVIII    |             your dealings are with the belly of man. A hungry people
508 XVIII    |           grieving most deeply (if the dead have any feeling) because
509 XVIII    |      feeling) because he knew that the Roman people were alive41
510 XVIII(41)|            Probably an allusion to the mad wish of Caligula: "utinam
511 XVIII(41)|       cited in De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The logic of the whole passage
512 XVIII(41)|           iii. 19. 2. The logic of the whole passage suffers from
513 XVIII(41)|         whole passage suffers from the uncertainty of the text. ~~
514 XVIII(41)|            from the uncertainty of the text. ~~
515 XVIII    |           boats42 and playing with the resources of the empire,
516 XVIII    |      playing with the resources of the empire, we were threatened
517 XVIII    |            we were threatened with the worst evil that can befall
518 XVIII    |            men even during a siege—the lack of provisions; his
519 XVIII(42)|             reaching from Baiae to the mole of Puteoli (Suetonius,
520 XVIII    |          king43 was very nearly at the cost of the city's destruction
521 XVIII    |         very nearly at the cost of the city's destruction and famine
522 XVIII    |         destruction and famine and the general revolution that
523 XVIII    |           What then must have been the feeling of those who had
524 XVIII    |            those who had charge of the corn-market, and had to
525 XVIII    |            and had to face stones, the sword, fire—and a Caligula?
526 XVIII    |            fire—and a Caligula? By the greatest subterfuge they
527 XVIII    |          subterfuge they concealed the great evil that lurked in
528 XVIII    |          great evil that lurked in the vitals of the state—with
529 XVIII    |            lurked in the vitals of the state—with good reason,
530 XVIII    |     maladies must be treated while the patient is kept in ignorance;
531 XVIII    |           their disease has caused the death of many. ~
532 XVIII(43)|             who laid a bridge over the Hellespont. ~~
533 XIX      |          Think you that it is just the same whether you are concerned
534 XIX      |           from oversea poured into the granaries, unhurt either
535 XIX      |        granaries, unhurt either by the dishonesty or the neglect
536 XIX      |        either by the dishonesty or the neglect of those who transport
537 XIX      |      sacred and lofty studies with the purpose of discovering what
538 XIX      |        rest When we are freed from the body; what the principle
539 XIX      |          freed from the body; what the principle is that upholds
540 XIX      |      principle is that upholds all the heaviest matter in the centre
541 XIX      |         all the heaviest matter in the centre of this world, suspends
542 XIX      |            of this world, suspends the light on high, carries fire
543 XIX      |           on high, carries fire to the topmost part, summons the
544 XIX      |          the topmost part, summons the stars to their proper changes—
545 XIX      |     wonders? You really must leave the ground and turn your mind'
546 XIX      |            these things! Now while the blood is hot, we must enter
547 XIX      |         enter with brisk step upon the better course. In this kind
548 XIX      |          much that is good to know—the love and practice of the
549 XIX      |           the love and practice of the virtues, forgetfulness of
550 XIX      |          virtues, forgetfulness of the passions, knowledge of living
551 XIX      |           a life of deep repose. ~ The condition of all who are
552 XIX      |     wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labour
553 XIX      |          of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are
554 XIX      |            under orders in case of the freest things in the world—
555 XIX      |            of the freest things in the world—loving and hating.
556 XX       |            see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you
557 XX       |            whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him;
558 XX       |         those things are bought at the price of life. They will
559 XX       |              Life has left some in the midst of their first struggles,
560 XX       |      before they could climb up to the height of their ambition;
561 XX       |            thousand indignities to the crowning dignity, have been
562 XX       |             have been possessed by the unhappy thought that they
563 XX       |        fail from sheer weakness in the midst of their great and
564 XX       |         whose breath leaves him in the midst of a trial when, advanced
565 XX       |           years and still courting the applause of an ignorant
566 XX       |           for some litigant who is the veriest stranger; disgraceful
567 XX       |           his labour, collapses in the very midst of his duties;
568 XX       |      disgraceful is he who dies in the act of receiving payments
569 XX(44)   |                                    The Roman year was dated by
570 XX(44)   |            Roman year was dated by the names of the two annual
571 XX(44)   |          was dated by the names of the two annual consuls. ~~
572 XX       |       having received release from the duties of his office by
573 XX       |           bed and to be mourned by the assembled household as if
574 XX       |      household as if he were dead. The whole house bemoaned the
575 XX       |           The whole house bemoaned the leisure of its old master,
576 XX       |        harness? Yet very many have the same feeling; their desire
577 XX       |        ability; they fight against the weakness of the body, they
578 XX       |            against the weakness of the body, they judge old age
579 XX       |        because it puts them aside. The law does not draft a soldier
580 XX       |          from themselves than from the law. Meantime, while they
581 XX       |         without any improvement of the mind. No one keeps death
582 XX       |      funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought
583 XX       |           ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax
584 XX(46)   |       Tacitus (Annals, i. 7) gives the praenomen as Gaius. ~~
585 XX       |          though they had lived but the tiniest span. ~~~~