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  1 I       |          been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly
  2 I(3)    |         for Theophrastus, as shown by Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iii.
  3 I       |           good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we
  4 I       |           good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply
  5 II      |           But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable,
  6 II      |        that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks
  7 II      |         wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted
  8 II      |        sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always
  9 II      |         others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader,
 10 II      |        over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are
 11 II      |           gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are
 12 II      |         there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a
 13 II      |          dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans
 14 II      |            have no fixed principle by which to direct their course,
 15 II      |         behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how
 16 II(5)   |             Cf. the epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις &#
 17 II      |          men whose names are known by heart, and you will see
 18 II(6)   |        actual defense, but one who by his presence and advice
 19 III     |      diseases which we have caused by our own acts, add, too,
 20 III     |         much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander
 21 IV      |        matters can be shown better by deeds than by promises.
 22 IV      |         shown better by deeds than by promises. Nevertheless,
 23 IV      |      forestall some of its delight by the pleasure of words."
 24 IV      |       youths who were bound to her by adultery as by a sacred
 25 IV      |        bound to her by adultery as by a sacred oath, oft alarmed
 26 IV(9)   |            Julia, who was banished by Augustus to the island of
 27 IV(10)  |             was sentenced to death by reason of his intrigue with
 28 VI      |           question whether he died by his own hand; for he fell
 29 VI      |            against themselves; but by these complaints they changed
 30 VII     |         even if they are possessed by the empty dream of glory,
 31 VII     |           receiving bail, how much by banquets—for even these
 32 VII     |           be successfully followed by a man who is busied with
 33 VII     |       robbed of much of their life by the public, have necessarily
 34 VII     |          of those who are burdened by great prosperity cry out
 35 VII     |         voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as
 36 VII     |           swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that
 37 VIII    |           Men set very great store by pensions and doles, and
 38 VIII    |            engrossed, life hastens by; meanwhile death will be
 39 IX      |     snatches from them the present by promising something hereafter.
 40 IX      |         from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow,
 41 IX      |          it was drawing nearer day by day. Even as conversation
 42 X       |         arguments will occur to me by which I could prove that
 43 X       |         battle-line must be turned by a bold attack, not by inflicting
 44 X       |       turned by a bold attack, not by inflicting pinpricks; that
 45 X       |           part which is disquieted by no want, by no fear, by
 46 X       |          is disquieted by no want, by no fear, by no attacks of
 47 X       |            by no want, by no fear, by no attacks of disease; this
 48 X       |            day at a time, and each by minutes; but all the days
 49 X       |     engrossed, just as if weighted by a yoke, cannot turn and
 50 XI      |        neglect, none is subtracted by wasteful giving, none of
 51 XII     |          the spittle of drunkards. By such means they seek the
 52 XII     |        omit them, who are reminded by someone else when they must
 53 XII     |        dine; so enfeebled are they by the excessive lassitude
 54 XII     |          that they cannot find out by themselves whether they
 55 XII     |            when he had been lifted by hands from the bath and
 56 XII     |           this one direction, that by now we can charge the mimes
 57 XIII    | nevertheless it wins our attention by reason of the attractiveness
 58 XIII    |        ancients a structure formed by joining together several
 59 XIII    |         javelin-throwers were sent by King Bocchus to despatch
 60 XIII    |        enough! Let them be crushed by animals of monstrous bulk!
 61 XIII    |            this same man, betrayed by Alexandrine treachery, offered
 62 XIII(29)|           the people were so moved by pity that they rose in a
 63 XIII    |        mistakes will be made fewer by such stories? Whose passions
 64 XIV     |            prepared a way of life. By other men's labours we are
 65 XIV     |             and if it is our wish, by greatness of mind, to pass
 66 XIV     |            a city so huge and torn by such varied desires, how
 67 XIV     |            long waiting, will rush by, pretending to be in a hurry!
 68 XIV     |         mortals can meet with them by night or by day. ~
 69 XIV     |         meet with them by night or by day. ~
 70 XV      |        they have been given to men by chance; yet we may be the
 71 XV      |        that ambition has commanded by decrees or reared in works
 72 XV      |             and he is not confined by the same bounds that shut
 73 XV      |          god. Has some time passed by? This he embraces by recollection.
 74 XV      |        passed by? This he embraces by recollection. Is time present?
 75 XV      |             He makes his life long by combining all times into
 76 XVI     |            folly they are harassed by shifting emotions which
 77 XVI     |            it is made much shorter by their own fault; for they
 78 XVI     |          fostering human frailties by the tales in which they
 79 XVII    |          are uneasy and disquieted by alarms of various sorts,
 80 XVII(35)|           land force was estimated by counting the number of times
 81 XVII    |         those times are which even by their own confession are
 82 XVII    |      wretched, since even the joys by which they are exalted and
 83 XVII    |           lifted above mankind are by no means pure? All the greatest
 84 XVII    |          must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what
 85 XVII    |             Have we been tormented by our own public honours?
 86 XVII    |            salary? He is perplexed by caring for his own wealth.
 87 XVIII   |            reason, nor is appeased by justice, nor is bent by
 88 XVIII   |            by justice, nor is bent by any entreaty. Very recently
 89 XVIII   |        sword, fire—and a Caligula? By the greatest subterfuge
 90 XIX     |           granaries, unhurt either by the dishonesty or the neglect
 91 XIX     |          become heated and spoiled by collecting moisture and
 92 XIX     |           who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk
 93 XIX     |        that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who
 94 XX      |         may have one year reckoned by their name.44 Life has left
 95 XX      |       dignity, have been possessed by the unhappy thought that
 96 XX      |             exhausted more quickly by his mode of living than
 97 XX      |            his mode of living than by his labour, collapses in
 98 XX(44)  |           The Roman year was dated by the names of the two annual
 99 XX      |           the duties of his office by Gaius Caesar's own act,
100 XX      |          his bed and to be mourned by the assembled household
101 XX      |          men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and
102 XX(47)  |          whose funerals took place by night (Servius, Aeneid,