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 1 I       |       crowd that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal
 2 I(3)    |          error for Theophrastus, as shown by Cicero, Tusc. Disp.
 3 I       |         are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth
 4 III     |         how few days have passed as you had intended, when you
 5 III     |         reason of this? You live as if you were destined to
 6 III     |          heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full
 7 III     |    suffer your course to be just as you plan it? Are you not
 8 III(7)  |        grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in
 9 IV      |         bound to her by adultery as by a sacred oath, oft alarmed
10 IV      |        grow in their place; just as in a body that was overburdened
11 V       |         others doubtful friends, as he is tossed to and fro
12 V       |          last swept away, unable as he was to be restful in
13 VI      |         never had a holiday even as a boy. For, while he was
14 VI      |         Heaven knows! such lives as yours, though they should
15 VI      |        you allow it to slip away as if it were something superfluous
16 VI(13)  |                                  As tribune in 91 B.C. he proposed
17 VII     |      rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it.
18 VII     |          who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither
19 VII     |    Fortune may deal out the rest as she likes; his life has
20 VII     |        he will take any addition as the man who is satisfied
21 VII     |         caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour,
22 VII     |        by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept
23 VIII    |         on the time itself; just as if what is asked were nothing,
24 VIII    |        time; all use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But
25 VIII    |      future years set before him as is possible in the case
26 VIII    |   applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first
27 IX      |        deprives them of each day as it comes, it snatches from
28 IX      |         of bards cries out, and, as if inspired with divine
29 IX      |          speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes
30 IX      |          nearer day by day. Even as conversation or reading
31 X       |     minds of the engrossed, just as if weighted by a yoke, cannot
32 X       |      vanishes into an abyss; and as it does no good, no matter
33 X       |       away from them, distracted as they are among many things. ~
34 XI      |        with a falsehood, and are as pleased to deceive themselves
35 XI      |    pleased to deceive themselves as if they deceived Fate at
36 XII(23) |          was stuck in the ground as the sign of a public auction
37 XII     |         a bit too careless, just as if he were shearing a real
38 XII     |    always snapping their fingers as they beat time to some song
39 XII     |        the hours for their rides as if it were unlawful to omit
40 XII     |          Some vices delight them as being proofs of their prosperity;
41 XII     |          he takes another's word as to whether he is sitting
42 XIII(28)|                 Such, doubtless, as Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Crassus. ~~
43 XIV     |      through some concealed door as if it were not more discourteous
44 XIV     |      Aristotle and Theophrastus, as their most intimate friends
45 XV      |          who has offered himself as a client to these! He will
46 XV      |         race; all ages serve him as if a god. Has some time
47 XVI     |         time is irksome; exactly as they do when a gladiatorial
48 XVI     |    inscribe the name of the gods as their sponsors, and to present
49 XVI     |   excused indulgence of divinity as an example to our own weakness?
50 XVII    |      greatness of their fortune, as they have viewed with terror
51 XVII    |        causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly as they are
52 XVII    |        perturbed as groundlessly as they are born. But of what
53 XVII    |         Have we ceased to labour as candidates? We begin to
54 XVII    |       their preserver, and, when as a young man he had scorned
55 XVIII   |        of your time for yourself as well. And I do not summon
56 XVIII   |      accounts of the whole world as honestly as you would a
57 XVIII   |          whole world as honestly as you would a stranger's,
58 XVIII   |          you would a stranger's, as carefully as you would your
59 XVIII   |         stranger's, as carefully as you would your own, as conscientiously
60 XVIII   | carefully as you would your own, as conscientiously as you would
61 XVIII   |          own, as conscientiously as you would the state's. You
62 XX      |         adjusted it to new hopes as if it were youth, have had
63 XX      |          the assembled household as if he were dead. The whole
64 XX(46)  |           7) gives the praenomen as Gaius. ~~
65 XX      |        torches and wax tapers,47 as though they had lived but
66 XX(47)  |                            i.e., as if they were children, whose