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1 I(1) | this essay was written (in or about A.D. 49), Paulinus
2 I | unbecoming to a wise man—that, in point of age, she has shown
3 I | enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure
4 I | But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness,
5 I | princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into
6 II | out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon
7 II | many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men'
8 II | of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own;
9 II | about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the list
10 II | therefore, to count anyone in debt for such services,
11 II(6) | and advice lent support in court. ~~
12 III | they themselves even lead in those who will eventually
13 III | us distribute his life! In guarding their fortune men
14 III | matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing
15 III | the case of the one thing in which it is right to be
16 III | with a client, how much in wrangling with your wife,
17 III | with your wife, how much in punishing your slaves, how
18 III | punishing your slaves, how much in rushing about the city on
19 III | than you count. Look back in memory and consider when
20 III | what work you have achieved in so long a life, how many
21 III | losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish
22 III | taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire,
23 III | sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements
24 III | foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements of society,
25 III(7) | should "come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock
26 III(7) | as a shock of corn cometh in in his season" (Job v. 26);
27 III(7) | shock of corn cometh in in his season" (Job v. 26);
28 IV | placed men let drop remarks in which they long for leisure,
29 IV | one day live for himself. In a letter addressed to the
30 IV | addressed to the senate, in which he had promised that
31 IV | seem that he anticipated it in thought because he could
32 IV | because he could not attain it in reality. He who saw everything
33 IV | subduing the enemies planted in the midst of a peaceful
34 IV | Euphrates and the Danube, in Rome itself the swords of
35 IV | the need to fear a woman in league with an Antony.10
36 IV(10) | In 31 B.C. Augustus had been
37 IV(10) | Mark Antony and Cleopatra; in 2 B.C. Iullus Antonius,
38 IV | themselves, others would grow in their place; just as in
39 IV | in their place; just as in a body that was overburdened
40 IV | so he longed for leisure, in the hope and thought of
41 IV(11) | and his two grandchildren in Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "
42 V | as he was to be restful in prosperity or patient in
43 V | in prosperity or patient in adversity—how many times
44 V | tearful the words he uses in a letter12 written to Atticus,
45 V | restore his shattered arms in Spain! "Do you ask," he
46 V | doing here? I am lingering in my Tusculan villa half a
47 V | proceeds to other statements, in which he bewails his former
48 V | half a prisoner." But, in very truth, never will the
49 VI | make his influence felt in the law-courts, so powerfully,
50 VI | is very well known that in certain trials he forced
51 VI | precocious hardihood would result in great personal and public
52 VI | trouble-maker and a nuisance in the forum. It is a question
53 VI | a sudden wound received in his groin, some doubting
54 VI | have vented their feelings in words, they fall back into
55 VI | upon the swiftest thing in the world, but you allow
56 VI(13) | As tribune in 91 B.C. he proposed a corn
57 VII | nevertheless go astray in a seemly manner; though
58 VII | unjust wars, these all sin in more manly fashion. But
59 VII(14) | those who are so absorbed in the interests of life that
60 VII | courted, how much is taken up in giving or receiving bail,
61 VII | interests are divided, takes in nothing very deeply, but
62 VII | that was worthy to be taken in exchange for his time. And
63 VII | prosperity cry out at times in the midst of their throngs
64 VII | clients, or their pleadings in court, or their other glorious
65 VII | quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same
66 VIII | the most precious thing in the world; but they are
67 VIII | spend all their possessions in order to live! So great
68 VIII | before him as is possible in the case of the years that
69 IX | themselves very busily engaged in order that they may be able
70 IX | better; they spend life in making ready to live! They
71 IX | dispose of that which lies in the hands of Fortune, you
72 IX | you let go that which lies in your own. Whither do you
73 IX | that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straightway!
74 IX | strain: ~The fairest day in hapless mortals' life~Is
75 IX | vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and,
76 IX | censure upon infinite delay, in that he says, not "the fairest
77 IX | yourself months and years in long array, unconcerned
78 X | nipped, but crushed. Yet, in order that the victims of
79 X | be none; for it is always in motion, it ever flows and
80 X | movement never lets them abide in the same track. The engrossed,
81 X(21) | fate of the Danaids, who in Hades forever poured water
82 XI | XI. In a word, do you want to know
83 XI | long! Decrepit old men beg in their prayers for the addition
84 XI | them of their mortality, in what terror do they die,
85 XI | they will live henceforth in leisure if only they escape
86 XI | none of it is scattered in this direction and that,
87 XII | have at length been let in drive out from the law-court,
88 XII | either gloriously crushed in their own crowd of followers,
89 XII | followers, or scornfully in someone else's, those whom
90 XII(22) | watch-dogs that were let in at nightfall, and caught
91 XII | praetor's hammer23 keeps busy in seeking gain that is disreputable
92 XII | of some men is engrossed; in their villa or on their
93 XII | villa or on their couch, in the midst of solitude, although
94 XII | that these are living, not in leisure, but in busy idleness.24
95 XII | living, not in leisure, but in busy idleness.24 Would you
96 XII(23) | spear," which was stuck in the ground as the sign of
97 XII | bits of copper? Who sits in a public wrestling-place (
98 XII | of those who are engaged in composing, hearing, and
99 XII | time to some song they have in their head, who are overheard
100 XII | breathlessly they watch to see in what style the wild boar
101 XII | borne hither and thither in a sedan-chair and a litter,
102 XII | from the bath and placed in his sedan-chair, said questioningly: "
103 XII | to make a mock of luxury! In very truth, they pass over
104 XII | unbelievable vices has come forth in this age, so clever in this
105 XII | forth in this age, so clever in this one direction, that
106 XII | is anyone who is so lost in luxury that he takes another'
107 XII | who is half alive, who, in order that he may know the
108 XII(26) | Actors in the popular mimes, or low
109 XIII | practice of baking their bodies in the sun. They are not unoccupied
110 XIII | you keep them to yourself, in no way pleasure your secret
111 XIII | assailed the Romans also. In the last few days I heard
112 XIII | first who had elephants led in his triumph. Still, these
113 XIII | there will be no profit in such knowledge, nevertheless
114 XIII | are called codices,27 and, in the ancient fashion, boats
115 XIII | gradual corruption of the name in the popular speech. Perhaps
116 XIII | someone to be interested also in this—the fact that Lucius
117 XIII | to exhibit loosed lions in the Circus, though at other
118 XIII | times they were exhibited in chains, and that javelin-throwers
119 XIII | slaughter of eighteen elephants in the Circus, pitting criminals
120 XIII | pitting criminals against them in a mimic battle? He, a leader
121 XIII(29) | moved by pity that they rose in a body and called down curses
122 XIII(29) | the occasion are recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus
123 XIII(29) | elephantorum dies fuit, in quo admiratio magna vulgi
124 XIII | victory over the Carthaginians in Sicily, was the only one
125 XIII | extended the pomerium,31 which in old times it was customary
126 XIII | auspices on that spot—and, in turn, countless other reports
127 XIII | that they tell these things in good faith, though they
128 XIII | than to become entangled in these. ~
129 XIV | Those who rush about in the performance of social
130 XIV | rush by, pretending to be in a hurry! How many will avoid
131 XIV | scarcely lifting their lips in the midst of a most insolent
132 XIV | break their own slumber33 in order to wait on that of
133 XIV | that they alone are engaged in the true duties of life
134 XIV(33) | The salutatio was held in the early morning. ~~
135 XV | wont to say that it was not in our power to choose the
136 XV | will be no need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit;
137 XV | commanded by decrees or reared in works of stone, quickly
138 XV | bounds that shut others in. He alone is freed from
139 XVI | while they have been busied in doing nothing. Nor because
140 XVI | that they find life long. In their folly they are harassed
141 XVI | and cannot remain fixed in one desire. Their days are
142 XVI | nights which they spend in the arms of a harlot or
143 XVI | the arms of a harlot or in wine! It is this also that
144 XVI | for the madness of poets in fostering human frailties
145 XVI | human frailties by the tales in which they represent that
146 XVI | these men? They lose the day in expectation of the night,
147 XVI | the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. ~
148 XVII | have not so much delighted in the greatness of their fortune,
149 XVII | When the King of Persia,34 in all the insolence of his
150 XVII(34) | Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C. ~~
151 XVII(35) | On the plain of Doriscus in Thrace the huge land force
152 XVII | some on the land, some in battle, some in flight,
153 XVII | land, some in battle, some in flight, and within a short
154 XVII | of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that
155 XVII | court. Has he become infirm in managing the property of
156 XVII(37) | synonymous with service in the army. ~~
157 XVII | brother's, did he not stand in his own way, he would be
158 XVII | ambition will lake delight in stubborn exile.40 Reasons
159 XVII(39) | his statue to be placed in the Capitol. ~~
160 XVII | wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.
161 XVII(40) | Disgusted with politics, he died in exile at Liternum. ~~
162 XVIII | hand, you have sustained in private life, how many,
163 XVIII | have brought upon yourself in public life; long enough
164 XVIII | your virtue been displayed in laborious and unceasing
165 XVIII | proofs—try how it will behave in leisure. The greater part
166 XVIII | drown all your native energy in slumbers and the pleasures
167 XVIII | energetically, to occupy you in the midst of your release
168 XVIII | the state's. You win love in an office in which it is
169 XVIII | You win love in an office in which it is difficult to
170 XVIII | happy life, and reflect that in all your training in the
171 XVIII | that in all your training in the liberal studies, extending
172 XVIII | how much worry you have in subjecting yourself to such
173 XVIII(41)| Suetonius, Calig. 30), cited in De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The
174 XVIII | the great evil that lurked in the vitals of the state—
175 XVIII | while the patient is kept in ignorance; knowledge of
176 XIX | whether you are concerned in having corn from oversea
177 XIX | those who transport it, in seeing that it does not
178 XIX | collecting moisture and tallies in weight and measure, or whether
179 XIX | all the heaviest matter in the centre of this world,
180 XIX | changes—and ether matters, in turn, full of mighty wonders?
181 XIX | upon the better course. In this kind of life there
182 XIX | another, who are under orders in case of the freest things
183 XIX | case of the freest things in the world—loving and hating.
184 XX | one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him;
185 XX | will waste all their years, in order that they may have
186 XX | name.44 Life has left some in the midst of their first
187 XX | fail from sheer weakness in the midst of their great
188 XX | whose breath leaves him in the midst of a trial when,
189 XX | of a trial when, advanced in years and still courting
190 XX | by his labour, collapses in the very midst of his duties;
191 XX | disgraceful is he who dies in the act of receiving payments
192 XX | pleasure for a man to die in harness? Yet very many have
193 XX | mind. No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from
194 XX | ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals
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