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1 I | men who were famous. It was this that made the greatest
2 I(1) | 19 that, when this essay was written (in or about A.D.
3 I(1) | about A.D. 49), Paulinus was praefectus annonae, the
4 I(1) | grain supply of Rome, and was, therefore, a man of importance.
5 I(1) | a man of importance. He was, believably, a near relative
6 I | short, art is long;"2 it was this that led Aristotle,3
7 I | before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life
8 III | Consider how much of your time was taken up with a moneylender,
9 III | expression, when your mind was ever unperturbed, what work
10 III | you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow,
11 III | how little of yourself was left to you; you will perceive
12 IV | his hope of leisure. This was the sweet, even if vain,
13 IV | to foreign wars. While he was pacifying the Alpine regions,
14 IV | peaceful empire, while he was extending its bounds even
15 IV | failing years—and there was Paulus, and a second time
16 IV(9) | The notorious Julia, who was banished by Augustus to
17 IV(10) | younger son of the triumvir, was sentenced to death by reason
18 IV | just as in a body that was overburdened with blood,
19 IV | overburdened with blood, there was always a rupture somewhere.
20 IV | relief for his labours. This was the prayer of one who was
21 IV | was the prayer of one who was able to answer the prayers
22 V | swept away, unable as he was to be restful in prosperity
23 V | been conquered, and the son was still trying to restore
24 V | future. Cicero said that he was "half a prisoner." But,
25 VI | to have exclaimed that he was the only person who had
26 VI | as a boy. For, while he was still a ward and wearing
27 VI | verdict. To what lengths was not such premature ambition
28 VI | public misfortune. And so it was too late for him to complain
29 VI | doubting whether his death was voluntary, no one, whether
30 VI | voluntary, no one, whether it was timely. ~ It would be superfluous
31 VII | neglected and idle; none of it was under the control of another,
32 VII | grudgingly, he found nothing that was worthy to be taken in exchange
33 VII(18) | management of the public games was committed to the praetors. ~~
34 VIII | the populace. Just as it was started on its first day,
35 IX | they did not notice that it was drawing nearer day by day.
36 IX | of his journey before he was aware that he was approaching
37 IX | before he was aware that he was approaching it, just so
38 X | short. But Fabianus,20 who was none of your lecture-room
39 XII(23) | Literally, "spear," which was stuck in the ground as the
40 XIII | is now a great number. It was once a foible confined to
41 XIII | the Iliad or the Odyssey was written first, whether moreover
42 XIII | heard someone telling who was the first Roman general
43 XIII | do this or that; Duilius was the first who won a naval
44 XIII | battle, Curius Dentatus was the first who had elephants
45 XIII | to go on board ship. It was Claudius, and this was the
46 XIII | It was Claudius, and this was the very reason he was surnamed
47 XIII | this was the very reason he was surnamed Caudex, because
48 XIII | together several boards was called a caudex, whence
49 XIII | fact that Valerius Corvinus was the first to conquer Messana,
50 XIII | to conquer Messana, and was the first of the family
51 XIII | conquered city to himself, and was later called Messala after
52 XIII | the fact that Lucius Sulla was the first to exhibit loosed
53 XIII | purpose to know that Pompey was the first to exhibit the
54 XIII | who, according to report, was conspicuous among the leaders28
55 XIII(27)| The ancient codex was made of tablets of wood
56 XIII | be jealous of an act that was nowise human.29 O, what
57 XIII | upon our minds! When he was casting so many troops of
58 XIII | a different sky, when he was proclaiming war between
59 XIII | so ill matched, when he was shedding so much blood before
60 XIII | Roman people, who itself was soon to be forced to shed
61 XIII | he then believed that he was beyond the power of Nature.
62 XIII | empty boast his surname30 was. ~ But to return to the
63 XIII | Carthaginians in Sicily, was the only one of all the
64 XIII | before his car; that Sulla was the last of the Roman's
65 XIII | which in old times it was customary to extend after
66 XIII | reasons, either because that was the place to which the plebeians
67 XIII | to say that at times he was doubtful whether it was
68 XIII | was doubtful whether it was not better not to apply
69 XIV(32) | that certainty of knowledge was unattainable. ~~
70 XIV(33) | The salutatio was held in the early morning. ~~
71 XV | are wont to say that it was not in our power to choose
72 XVII(35)| Thrace the huge land force was estimated by counting the
73 XVII(35)| capable of holding 10,000 men was filled (Herodotus, vii.
74 XVII | alive.36 But he who wept was to bring upon them their
75 XVII | bring upon them their fate, was to give some to their doom
76 XVII | and within a short time was to destroy all those for
77 XVII(38)| His first appointment was announced to him while he
78 XVII(38)| announced to him while he was ploughing his own fields. ~~
79 XVIII | seven or eight days while he was building his bridges of
80 XVIII | foreign and misproud king43 was very nearly at the cost
81 XX(44) | The Roman year was dated by the names of the
82 XX | to me. Sextus46 Turannius was an old man of long tested
83 XX | until his accustomed work was restored to him. Is it really
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