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1 XVII(35) | space capable of holding 10,000 men was filled (Herodotus,
2 XIII(29) | recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum
3 XVII(35) | space capable of holding 10,000 men was filled (Herodotus,
4 III(7) | Literally, "unripe." At 100 he should "come to his grave
5 XII(25) | at the beginning of chap. 14. ~~
6 I(1) | It is clear from chapters 18 and 19 that, when this essay
7 I(4) | of man. Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach):~ ’Εννέα
8 XIII(29) | Pliny (Nat. Hist. viii. 21) reports that the people
9 III(7) | in in his season" (Job v. 26); but he is still unripe. ~~
10 XIII(29) | recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum
11 XVIII(41)| haberet!" (Suetonius, Calig. 30), cited in De Ira, iii.
12 IV(10) | In 31 B.C. Augustus had been pitted
13 XIII(31) | and (according to Livy, i. 44) without the city wall.
14 XVII(36) | Herodotus, vii. 45, 46 tells the story. ~~
15 XVII(36) | Herodotus, vii. 45, 46 tells the story. ~~
16 XVII(34) | Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C. ~~
17 I(1) | written (in or about A.D. 49), Paulinus was praefectus
18 IV(11) | grandchildren in Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "nec (solebat) aliter
19 I(1) | Tacitus, Annals, xiii. 53. 2; xv. ~~
20 XVII(35) | filled (Herodotus, vii. 60). ~~
21 IV(11) | grandchildren in Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "nec (solebat) aliter
22 IX(19) | Virgil, Georgics, iii. 66 sq. ~~
23 I(3) | Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iii. 69: "Theophrastus autem moriens
24 XX(46) | Tacitus (Annals, i. 7) gives the praenomen as
25 II(5) | Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιο&#
26 II(5) | ζήσας δὲ ἔτη ἑπτά. ~~
27 I(2) | 8001; βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή. ~~
28 XII(24) | Pliny, Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim, ut Atilius
29 I(2) | of Hippocrates of Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δ&#
30 II(5) | νταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔτη τόσα,
31 II(5) | 19: Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μ&#
32 IV(8) | Cf. Seneca, Agamemnon, 88 sq.:~ Sidunt ipso
33 XII(24) | Cf. Pliny, Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim, ut
34 I(4) | ἀνδρῶν γηράντω· ἔλαφος δέ τε τετρακόρωνος. ~~
35 VI(13) | As tribune in 91 B.C. he proposed a corn
36 I(1) | was written (in or about A.D. 49), Paulinus was praefectus
37 VI | neither carry through nor abandon when once started on, he
38 X | movement never lets them abide in the same track. The engrossed,
39 II | no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I am speaking
40 XX | lasts longer than their ability; they fight against the
41 VII(14) | designating those who are so absorbed in the interests of life
42 III | you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while
43 XI | the amount of it, it is abundantly sufficient, and therefore,
44 X | their life vanishes into an abyss; and as it does no good,
45 | ac
46 XIV(32) | The New Academy taught that certainty of
47 XIV | are we shut out, we have access to all ages, and if it is
48 IV | which they long for leisure, acclaim it, and prefer it to all
49 I | generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things
50 I(3) | Theophrastus autem moriens accusasse naturam dicitur, quod cervis
51 VI | of a jury those who were accused, and to make his influence
52 XX | end its sorrow until his accustomed work was restored to him.
53 III | unperturbed, what work you have achieved in so long a life, how many
54 I | for so many and such great achievements. It is not that we have
55 XIII | customary to extend after the acquisition of Italian but never of
56 XII(26) | Actors in the popular mimes, or
57 II(6) | Not one who undertook the actual defense, but one who by
58 | Ad
59 XVIII | indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the happy life, and reflect
60 VIII | themselves suffer loss without adding to the years of their dear
61 IV | for himself. In a letter addressed to the senate, in which
62 III | theme, never could they adequately express their wonder at
63 XX | extreme old age, while they adjusted it to new hopes as if it
64 IX | utterance of the bard is most admirably worded to cast censure upon
65 XIII(29) | elephantorum dies fuit, in quo admiratio magna vulgi atque turbae,
66 XV | off we are more free to admire. The life of the philosopher,
67 X(20) | A much admired teacher of Seneca. ~~
68 II | wretches whose evils are admitted? Look at those whose prosperity
69 XV | into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely
70 IV | who were bound to her by adultery as by a sacred oath, oft
71 XX | the midst of a trial when, advanced in years and still courting
72 V | prosperity or patient in adversity—how many times does he curse
73 II(6) | who by his presence and advice lent support in court. ~~
74 XX(47) | place by night (Servius, Aeneid, xi. 143). ~
75 I(3) | vitam dedisset; quorum si aetas potuisset esse longinquior,
76 IV | seek release from public affairs; all his conversation ever
77 IV(8) | own weight. Cf. Seneca, Agamemnon, 88 sq.:~ Sidunt
78 XII(24) | otiosum esse quam nihil agere." ~~
79 VII | breathe. ~ Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can
80 XVIII | earliest years, you were not aiming at this—that it might be
81 XVII | uneasy and disquieted by alarms of various sorts, and at
82 XIII | this same man, betrayed by Alexandrine treachery, offered himself
83 | aliter
84 XIII | oblivion lest hereafter some all-powerful man should learn them and
85 II | Their victims are never allowed to return to their true
86 XIV | the Cynics. Since Nature allows us to enter into fellowship
87 X | were disguised under some allurement of momentary pleasure, do
88 III | in greedy desire, in the allurements of society, how little of
89 V | he is tossed to and fro along with the state and seeks
90 IV | While he was pacifying the Alpine regions, and subduing the
91 X | never deceived; he who has ambitiously coveted, proudly scorned,
92 XI | business, why should it not be ample? None of it is assigned
93 I | increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders
94 XVI | time of some other show or amusement, they want to skip over
95 XIII | Caudex, because among the ancients a structure formed by joining
96 I(4) | λακέρυζα κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν γηράντω· ἔλαφος
97 II | do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for
98 XII | toward the forehead? How angry they get if the barber has
99 XIV | own lifetime only. They annex ever age to their own; all
100 I(1) | Paulinus was praefectus annonae, the official who superintended
101 XX(44) | by the names of the two annual consuls. ~~
102 IV | prayer of one who was able to answer the prayers of mankind. ~
103 II | desires an advocate,6 this one answers the call, that one is on
104 IV | did leisure seem that he anticipated it in thought because he
105 XV | it still to come? This he anticipates. He makes his life long
106 XVII | Hannibal, victorious over Antiochus, the glory of his own consulship,
107 IV(10) | Cleopatra; in 2 B.C. Iullus Antonius, younger son of the triumvir,
108 XVII | moment of rejoicing the anxious thought comes over them:
109 XII | unoccupied hours, since I see how anxiously they set out their silver
110 IX | IX. Can anything be sillier than the point
111 I(2) | The famous aphorism of Hippocrates of Cos: &#
112 XII(22) | Apparently watch-dogs that were let
113 XVIII | listens to reason, nor is appeased by justice, nor is bent
114 IV(11) | nec (solebat) aliter eos appellare quam tris vomicas ac tria
115 XIII(31) | A name applied to a consecrated space kept
116 XVI | they are waiting for the appointed time of some other show
117 XVII(38) | His first appointment was announced to him while
118 IX | he was aware that he was approaching it, just so with this unceasing
119 XIV | which we may roam. We may argue with Socrates, we may doubt32
120 X | their separate proofs, many arguments will occur to me by which
121 XX | some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond
122 XII | man is at leisure25 who arranges with finical care his Corinthian
123 IX | months and years in long array, unconcerned and slow though
124 XVI | the time set for dinner arrives; for, whenever their engrossments
125 I | exclaim that "life is short, art is long;"2 it was this that
126 I(3) | fuisse ut omnibus perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum vita
127 X | with main force, not with artifice, and that the battle-line
128 VII | harder to learn. Of the other arts there are many teachers
129 III | you plan it? Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself
130 IV | Sicily, Egypt, Syria, and Asia, and almost all countries
131 VIII | itself; just as if what is asked were nothing, what is given,
132 XIV | exclude. How many, still half asleep and sluggish from last night'
133 IV | nothing from without should assail or shatter, Fortune of its
134 XIII | learning useless things has assailed the Romans also. In the
135 XX | and to be mourned by the assembled household as if he were
136 II | one gives sentence; no one asserts his claim to himself, everyone
137 XI | be ample? None of it is assigned to another, none of it is
138 VIII | dispense an amount that is assured, no matter how small it
139 VII | of glory, nevertheless go astray in a seemly manner; though
140 XII | Who feeds all the newest athletes? Tell me, would you say
141 XII(24) | 8: "satius est enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul
142 X | must be turned by a bold attack, not by inflicting pinpricks;
143 X | want, by no fear, by no attacks of disease; this can neither
144 VII | for the fasces,17 when he attains them, desires to lay them
145 II | he himself has no time to attend to himself? After all, no
146 II | servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are
147 XIII | nevertheless it wins our attention by reason of the attractiveness
148 V | in a letter12 written to Atticus, when Pompey the elder had
149 XIII | attention by reason of the attractiveness of an empty subject. We
150 XII(23) | as the sign of a public auction where captured or confiscated
151 II | them when they wished an audience! But can anyone have the
152 IV(11) | grandchildren in Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "nec (solebat)
153 XIII | favourable when Remus took his auspices on that spot—and, in turn,
154 | autem
155 XIII | they belong to the same author, and various other matters
156 II | one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another
157 VII | cite to me the men who are avaricious, the men who are wrathful,
158 XIII | know this than that Mount Aventine, according to him, is outside
159 X | to direct their thoughts backward to ill-spent hours, and
160 I | comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however
161 XVIII(42)| miles long, reaching from Baiae to the mole of Puteoli (
162 VII | up in giving or receiving bail, how much by banquets—for
163 XIII | ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.
164 XIII | their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking
165 IV(9) | notorious Julia, who was banished by Augustus to the island
166 XII | would not rather be well barbered than upright? Would you
167 IX | too, the utterance of the bard is most admirably worded
168 IX | See how the greatest of bards cries out, and, as if inspired
169 XVII | his own wealth. Have the barracks37 set Marius free? The consulship
170 XII | lifted by hands from the bath and placed in his sedan-chair,
171 XII | someone else when they must bathe, when they must swim, when
172 X | with artifice, and that the battle-line must be turned by a bold
173 VIII | being noticed they find is bearable. Yet no one will bring back
174 XIII | wretched human beings to wild beasts born under a different sky,
175 XII | snapping their fingers as they beat time to some song they have
176 XIV | the sight of things most beautiful that have been wrested from
177 XVII | ceased to be a judge? He becomes president of a court. Has
178 XX | himself to be laid out on his bed and to be mourned by the
179 XVIII | the worst evil that can befall men even during a siege—
180 XI | live long! Decrepit old men beg in their prayers for the
181 XII(25) | Seneca's definition at the beginning of chap. 14. ~~
182 IX | meditation on some subject beguiles the traveller, and he finds
183 XVII | other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have
184 XVIII | unceasing proofs—try how it will behave in leisure. The greater
185 X | yoke, cannot turn and look behind. And so their life vanishes
186 I(1) | man of importance. He was, believably, a near relative of Seneca'
187 XIII | forced to shed more. he then believed that he was beyond the power
188 XIII | first, whether moreover they belong to the same author, and
189 XIII(31) | The right of extending it belonged originally to the king who
190 XIII(29) | eiusmodi, esse quandam illi beluae cum genere humana societatem." ~~
191 I | the unthinking crowd that bemoan what is, as men deem it,
192 XX | were dead. The whole house bemoaned the leisure of its old master,
193 II | but merely time. Vices beset us and surround us on every
194 XVII | own way, he would be set beside Jove39; but the discord
195 XVIII | with a heavy pack? Reflect, besides, how much worry you have
196 II | are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed
197 VII | the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own
198 XIV | which we share with our betters? ~ Those who rush about
199 V | statements, in which he bewails his former life and complains
200 X | time will appear when you bid them, they will suffer you
201 II(5) | 7952;νταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔ
202 I(2) | Hippocrates of Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ
203 XII | if the barber has been a bit too careless, just as if
204 XII | part of each day upon rusty bits of copper? Who sits in a
205 VIII | the world; but they are blind to it because it is an incorporeal
206 XIII | nowise human.29 O, what blindness does great prosperity cast
207 XII | see in what style the wild boar issues from the hands of
208 XIII | induced the Romans to go on board ship. It was Claudius, and
209 XIII | joining together several boards was called a caudex, whence
210 XIII | javelin-throwers were sent by King Bocchus to despatch them? And, doubtless,
211 XIII | practice of baking their bodies in the sun. They are not
212 IV(11) | carcinomata sua" ("his trio of boils and trio of ulcers"). ~~
213 XVII(37) | Caliga, the boot of the common soldier, is
214 XIII | make you seem more of a bore than a scholar. But now
215 XII | men who have themselves borne hither and thither in a
216 VIII | they ask it most indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on
217 XX | envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They
218 IV | the noble youths who were bound to her by adultery as by
219 XIV | soul to the past, which is boundless, which is eternal, which
220 VI | had a holiday when from boyhood he had been a trouble-maker
221 I(2) | Hippocrates of Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη
222 XIII | Whom will they make more brave, whom more just, whom more
223 XX | endeavours. Shameful is he whose breath leaves him in the midst
224 VII | do not allow them time to breathe. ~ Finally, everybody agrees
225 XII | their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch to see in what
226 XVIII(43)| Xerxes, who laid a bridge over the Hellespont. ~~
227 XVIII | while he was building his bridges of boats42 and playing with
228 III | III. Though all the brilliant intellects of the ages were
229 XVII | what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very
230 XIX | hot, we must enter with brisk step upon the better course.
231 XII | finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a few
232 X | has come, and can no more brook delay than the firmament
233 XVII | consulship, the surety for his brother's, did he not stand in his
234 XVIII | eight days while he was building his bridges of boats42 and
235 XIII | by animals of monstrous bulk! Better would it be that
236 XII | from their own homes to bump them against someone else'
237 VII | hear many of those who are burdened by great prosperity cry
238 VII | that old woman wearied with burying her heirs?16 Of how many
239 IX | They keep themselves very busily engaged in order that they
240 II | cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master.
241 IV | itself the swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and
242 XVII(37) | Caliga, the boot of the common
243 XIV | to himself than when he came, no one of these will allow
244 VII | robbed you? Of how many that candidate? Of how many that old woman
245 XVII | Have we ceased to labour as candidates? We begin to canvass for
246 XVII | candidates? We begin to canvass for others. Have we got
247 XVII(35) | number of times a space capable of holding 10,000 men was
248 VIII | are, if threatened with capital punishment, to spend all
249 XVII(39) | statue to be placed in the Capitol. ~~
250 XIII | elephants to be led before his car; that Sulla was the last
251 IV(11) | quam tris vomicas ac tria carcinomata sua" ("his trio of boils
252 XII | who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes,
253 XII | barber has been a bit too careless, just as if he were shearing
254 I | squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no
255 XVII | salary? He is perplexed by caring for his own wealth. Have
256 XIV | Socrates, we may doubt32 with Carneades, find peace with Epicurus,
257 XIV | unvisited, when they have carried around their venal greeting
258 XIX | suspends the light on high, carries fire to the topmost part,
259 XVIII | are much more suited to carrying heavy loads than thoroughbred
260 XII | what skill the birds are carved into portions all according
261 II(5) | Cf. the epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις &#
262 XIII | upon our minds! When he was casting so many troops of wretched
263 V | long flung among men like Catiline and Clodius and Pompey and
264 XVII | wretchedness, but change the cause. Have we been tormented
265 XVII | they do not rest on stable causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly
266 X | flows and hurries on; it ceases to be before it has come,
267 IV(8) | pondere magna~ ceditque oneri Fortuna suo. ~~
268 X | have been submitted to the censorship of his conscience, which
269 IX | admirably worded to cast censure upon infinite delay, in
270 XIX | the heaviest matter in the centre of this world, suspends
271 XVIII | greater part of your life, certainly the better part of it, has
272 XIV(32) | New Academy taught that certainty of knowledge was unattainable. ~~
273 XVIII(41)| utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!" (Suetonius, Calig.
274 I(3) | accusasse naturam dicitur, quod cervis et cornicibus vitam diuturnam,
275 II | overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their victims are
276 XIII | times they were exhibited in chains, and that javelin-throwers
277 XVII | their wretchedness, but change the cause. Have we been
278 VI | by these complaints they changed neither themselves nor others.
279 XIX | the stars to their proper changes—and ether matters, in turn,
280 XII(25) | definition at the beginning of chap. 14. ~~
281 I(1) | It is clear from chapters 18 and 19 that, when this
282 IV(11) | reminiscent of Augustus's own characterization of Julia and his two grandchildren
283 VIII | reason it is counted a very cheap thing—nay, of almost no
284 XIII | whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice
285 IX | while their minds are still childish, and they come to it unprepared
286 XX(47) | i.e., as if they were children, whose funerals took place
287 X | it passes out through the chinks and holes of the mind. Present
288 VII | manner; though you should cite to me the men who are avaricious,
289 XVIII(41)| Suetonius, Calig. 30), cited in De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The
290 VI(13) | law and the granting of citizenship to the Italians. ~~
291 XVII | Jove39; but the discord of civilians will vex their preserver,
292 II | sentence; no one asserts his claim to himself, everyone is
293 VIII | see how these same people clasp the knees of physicians
294 XII | these among the leisured class either—the men who have
295 XIII | go on board ship. It was Claudius, and this was the very reason
296 I(1) | It is clear from chapters 18 and 19
297 IV(10) | against Mark Antony and Cleopatra; in 2 B.C. Iullus Antonius,
298 XII | come forth in this age, so clever in this one direction, that
299 XX | struggles, before they could climb up to the height of their
300 V | among men like Catiline and Clodius and Pompey and Crassus,
301 XV | envy works upon what is close at hand, and things that
302 III | their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the
303 XIII(27) | The ancient codex was made of tablets of wood
304 XIII | Tiber are even to-day called codicariae. Doubtless this too may
305 XIII | Tables of the Law are called codices,27 and, in the ancient fashion,
306 XX | living than by his labour, collapses in the very midst of his
307 IV | countrymen, then against his colleagues, and lastly against his
308 XIX | become heated and spoiled by collecting moisture and tallies in
309 XII | pairs of the same age and colour? Who feeds all the newest
310 XII | who are occupied with the comb and the mirror? And what
311 XV | He makes his life long by combining all times into one. ~
312 III(7) | like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season" (Job v.
313 XI | younger than they are; they comfort themselves with a falsehood,
314 VIII | not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause
315 XV | monuments, all that ambition has commanded by decrees or reared in
316 VI | he had had the courage to commend to the favour of a jury
317 XVIII | of yours, which is most competent to cope with the greatest
318 VI | started on, he is said to have complained bitterly against the life
319 II | other men's fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following
320 V | bewails his former life and complains of the present and despairs
321 I | feeling has called forth complaint also from men who were famous.
322 VI | themselves; but by these complaints they changed neither themselves
323 XII | those who are engaged in composing, hearing, and learning songs,
324 III | intellects of the ages were to concentrate upon this one theme, never
325 II | insolent, he does sometimes condescend to listen to your words,
326 XX | of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches
327 VII | have departed from life confessing that they did not yet know—
328 XVII | which even by their own confession are wretched, since even
329 XII(23) | auction where captured or confiscated goods were put up for sale. ~~
330 XIII | Corvinus was the first to conquer Messana, and was the first
331 X | to the censorship of his conscience, which is never deceived;
332 XVIII | as you would your own, as conscientiously as you would the state's.
333 XIII(29) | etiam misericordia quaedam consecuta est atque opinio eiusmodi,
334 IV | the sweet, even if vain, consolation with which he would gladden
335 XIII | according to report, was conspicuous among the leaders28 of old
336 II | How many are pale from constant pleasures! To how many does
337 XX(44) | names of the two annual consuls. ~~
338 XV | great and small, whom he may consult every day about himself,
339 XIV | really live; for they are not content to be good guardians of
340 II | waters of the deep sea which continue to heave even after the
341 XV | his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will
342 XII | issues from the hands of the cook, with what speed at a given
343 XVIII | which is most competent to cope with the greatest subjects,
344 XVII | simply its measure,35 he shed copious tears because inside of
345 XII | each day upon rusty bits of copper? Who sits in a public wrestling-place (
346 XII | arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania
347 I(3) | dicitur, quod cervis et cornicibus vitam diuturnam, quorum
348 XIII | Messala after the gradual corruption of the name in the popular
349 XIII | point—the fact that Valerius Corvinus was the first to conquer
350 I(2) | aphorism of Hippocrates of Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, &#
351 XII | the mania of a few makes costly, and spends the greater
352 XII | their villa or on their couch, in the midst of solitude,
353 XV | friends from whom he may seek counsel on matters great and small,
354 VIII | and for this reason it is counted a very cheap thing—nay,
355 XVII(35) | land force was estimated by counting the number of times a space
356 XIII | that spot—and, in turn, countless other reports that are either
357 IV | and Asia, and almost all countries he followed the path of
358 IV | pit arms first against his countrymen, then against his colleagues,
359 VII | court, how much to being courted, how much is taken up in
360 X | he who has ambitiously coveted, proudly scorned, recklessly
361 VI | unrest he had had from the cradle, and to have exclaimed that
362 IV | Fortune of its very self comes crashing down.8 ~ The deified Augustus,
363 XX | ambition; some, when they have crawled up through a thousand indignities
364 III | have fewer years to your credit than you count. Look back
365 IX | how the greatest of bards cries out, and, as if inspired
366 XIII | elephants in the Circus, pitting criminals against them in a mimic
367 XIV | when they have every day crossed everybody's threshold, and
368 XIV | out through a hall that is crowded with clients, and will make
369 XX | thousand indignities to the crowning dignity, have been possessed
370 | cum
371 XIII | who won a naval battle, Curius Dentatus was the first who
372 V | adversity—how many times does he curse that very consulship of
373 XIII(29) | in a body and called down curses upon Pompey. Cicero's impressions
374 XIII | which in old times it was customary to extend after the acquisition
375 IV | an Antony.10 When be had cut away these ulcers11 together
376 XIV | Stoics, exceed it with the Cynics. Since Nature allows us
377 XIII | offered himself to the dagger of the vilest slave, and
378 II | many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their
379 X(21) | allusion to the fate of the Danaids, who in Hades forever poured
380 IV | and the Euphrates and the Danube, in Rome itself the swords
381 XX(44) | The Roman year was dated by the names of the two
382 IV | escaped their plots, when his daughter9 and all the noble youths
383 XVI | the night in fear of the dawn. ~
384 | De
385 I(4) | γηράντω· ἔλαφος δέ τε τετρακόρωνος. ~~
386 VII | full. Mistress Fortune may deal out the rest as she likes;
387 XVIII | such a great burden; your dealings are with the belly of man.
388 XVIII | XVIII. And so, my dearest Paulinus, tear yourself
389 XVI | nights which they pay for so dearly fail to seem all too short
390 XII | night before? while a solemn debate is held over each separate
391 XIV | sluggish from last night's debauch, scarcely lifting their
392 II | therefore, to count anyone in debt for such services, seeing
393 II | that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven
394 XV | ambition has commanded by decrees or reared in works of stone,
395 XI | eager they are to live long! Decrepit old men beg in their prayers
396 XX | huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts
397 I(3) | interfuisset, tam exiguam vitam dedisset; quorum si aetas potuisset
398 IV | matters can be shown better by deeds than by promises. Nevertheless,
399 I | that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal ill; the
400 VI | more who, though others deemed them the happiest of men,
401 VII | Of how many days has that defendant robbed you? Of how many
402 II | one is on trial, that one defends him, that one gives sentence;
403 II(6) | who undertook the actual defense, but one who by his presence
404 XII(25) | leisured," see Seneca's definition at the beginning of chap.
405 IV | comes crashing down.8 ~ The deified Augustus, to whom the gods
406 II | his side; but you never deign to look upon yourself, to
407 XX | draws a smile from his long delayed45 heir. I cannot pass over
408 XIII(29) | magna vulgi atque turbae, delectatio nulla exstitit; quin etiam
409 XVII | and they have not so much delighted in the greatness of their
410 II | which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of
411 VIII | wonder when I see some men demanding the time of others and those
412 XIV | to have Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus, and all the other high
413 III | express their wonder at this dense darkness of the human mind.
414 XIII | won a naval battle, Curius Dentatus was the first who had elephants
415 VII | greater number of them have departed from life confessing that
416 IV | reality. He who saw everything depending upon himself alone, who
417 IX | living is expectancy, which depends upon the morrow and wastes
418 IX | greatest waste of life; it deprives them of each day as it comes,
419 IV | could be with safety, to descend from their high pinnacle;
420 VII(14) | engrossed," is a technical term designating those who are so absorbed
421 XII | simplest movement Nature designed to be straightforward, into
422 IV | the pleasure of words." So desirable a thing did leisure seem
423 V | complains of the present and despairs of the future. Cicero said
424 XIII | sent by King Bocchus to despatch them? And, doubtless, this
425 XII | man who is very lowly and despicable to know what he is doing.
426 IV | upon himself alone, who determined the fortune of individuals
427 IV | that his rest would not be devoid of dignity nor inconsistent
428 VIII | those whom they love most devotedly they have a habit of saying
429 II | insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless;
430 I(3) | moriens accusasse naturam dicitur, quod cervis et cornicibus
431 XVII | to get to the end of his dictatorship? He will be called back
432 X | so with time—it makes no difference how much is given; if there
433 XIII | point from which I have digressed, and to show that some people
434 XX | an old man of long tested diligence, who, after his ninetieth
435 XII | their silver plate, how diligently they tie up the tunics of
436 XII | must swim, when they must dine; so enfeebled are they by
437 XVI | slowly until the time set for dinner arrives; for, whenever their
438 II(5) | epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐ
439 XII | separate hair? while either disarranged locks are restored to their
440 II | lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep
441 XVII | set beside Jove39; but the discord of civilians will vex their
442 XIV | door as if it were not more discourteous to deceive than to exclude.
443 XIX | studies with the purpose of discovering what substance, what pleasure,
444 III | on social duties. Add the diseases which we have caused by
445 X | even the vices which were disguised under some allurement of
446 XVII(40) | Disgusted with politics, he died in
447 XIX | granaries, unhurt either by the dishonesty or the neglect of those
448 VII | lust bear a stain that is dishonourable. Search into the hours of
449 XII | not rather have the state disordered than his hair? Who is not
450 I(3) | as shown by Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iii. 69: "Theophrastus
451 VIII | be! And yet it is easy to dispense an amount that is assured,
452 II | and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth
453 XVIII | enough has your virtue been displayed in laborious and unceasing
454 III | you were ever at your own disposal, when your face ever wore
455 III | there is even the slightest dispute about the limit of their
456 XII | in seeking gain that is disreputable and that will one day fester.
457 II | shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness
458 II | these are the marks that distinguish them: A cultivates B and
459 X | filched away from them, distracted as they are among many things. ~
460 I(3) | cervis et cornicibus vitam diuturnam, quorum id nihil interesset,
461 X | X. Should I choose to divide my subject into heads with
462 IX | and, as if inspired with divine utterance, sings the saving
463 XVI | the excused indulgence of divinity as an example to our own
464 XII(24) | eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit, otiosum esse quam nihil
465 I(3) | omnibus perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~~
466 XII | mean only those whom the dogs22 that have at length been
467 VIII | great store by pensions and doles, and for these they hire
468 X | mishaps, and removed from the dominion of Fortune, the part which
469 XVII | was to give some to their doom on the sea, some on the
470 XVII | fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure
471 XII | them against someone else's doors, or whom the praetor's hammer23
472 XVII(35) | On the plain of Doriscus in Thrace the huge land
473 XVI | the pleasures of a lover doubled the length of the night.
474 VI | received in his groin, some doubting whether his death was voluntary,
475 XX | aside. The law does not draft a soldier after his fiftieth
476 XI | feeling that they are being dragged out of life, and not merely
477 IX | did not notice that it was drawing nearer day by day. Even
478 XVI | into the very things they dread; they often pray for death
479 VII | are possessed by the empty dream of glory, nevertheless go
480 VI | still a ward and wearing the dress of a boy, he had had the
481 XII | have at length been let in drive out from the law-court,
482 IV | and highly placed men let drop remarks in which they long
483 XVIII | or idle inaction, or to drown all your native energy in
484 XII | lads wipe up the spittle of drunkards. By such means they seek
485 VI | VI. When Livius Drusus,13 a bold and energetic
486 XIII | general to do this or that; Duilius was the first who won a
487 XVIII | that can befall men even during a siege—the lack of provisions;
488 XI | not "live long"? See how eager they are to live long! Decrepit
489 II | look upon yourself, to give ear to yourself. There is no
490 XVIII | studies, extending from your earliest years, you were not aiming
491 XIV(33) | salutatio was held in the early morning. ~~
492 IV | desire for that time most earnestly prayed for has led me to
493 VIII | would they be! And yet it is easy to dispense an amount that
494 XII | life that they can neither eat nor drink without ostentation.
495 VII(15) | the structure has led some editors to doubt the integrity of
496 VIII | their labour or service or effort. But no one sets a value
497 IV | Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were being whetted
498 IV | Through Macedonia, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, and Asia, and almost
499 XVIII | for at any rate seven or eight days while he was building
500 XIII | exhibit the slaughter of eighteen elephants in the Circus,
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