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501 | eiusmodi
502 XII | of being fastidious and elegant, and to such an extent do
503 XIII(29) | Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum dies fuit, in quo admiratio
504 XV | time passed by? This he embraces by recollection. Is time
505 XVI | are harassed by shifting emotions which rush them into the
506 XVIII | how many waves you have encountered, how many storms, on the
507 VII | having laid aside all their encumbrances, having renounced riches,
508 XV | friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting
509 XX | their great and shameless endeavours. Shameful is he whose breath
510 II | s company, but could not endure your own. ~
511 VI | Livius Drusus,13 a bold and energetic man, had with the support
512 XVIII | have hitherto performed so energetically, to occupy you in the midst
513 XVIII | to drown all your native energy in slumbers and the pleasures
514 XII | when they must dine; so enfeebled are they by the excessive
515 | enim
516 VII | all known, all have been enjoyed to the full. Mistress Fortune
517 I(4) | 183 (Rzach):~ ’Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα
518 XIII | any studies than to become entangled in these. ~
519 III | thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time
520 XVI | represent that Jupiter under the enticement of the pleasures of a lover
521 XVIII | justice, nor is bent by any entreaty. Very recently within those
522 XVIII | that it might be safe to entrust many thousand pecks of corn
523 I | however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases
524 | eos
525 XIV | Carneades, find peace with Epicurus, overcome human nature with
526 XII(24) | Cf. Pliny, Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim,
527 II(5) | an unknown poet. Cf. the epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix.
528 I(3) | An error for Theophrastus, as shown
529 I(3) | omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~~
530 XII(24) | enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit,
531 IV | slay him. Not yet had he escaped their plots, when his daughter9
532 VI | hurries away, of necessity escapes from you quickly; for you
533 III | suffer anyone to seize their estates, and they rush to stones
534 XVII(35) | the huge land force was estimated by counting the number of
535 XIV | which is boundless, which is eternal, which we share with our
536 XIX | their proper changes—and ether matters, in turn, full of
537 | etiam
538 IV | beyond the Rhine and the Euphrates and the Danube, in Rome
539 III | even lead in those who will eventually possess it. No one is to
540 X | be snatched away—it is an everlasting and unanxious possession.
541 VII | there are many teachers everywhere; some of them we have seen
542 XVI | intervening time is irksome; exactly as they do when a gladiatorial
543 XVII | the joys by which they are exalted and lifted above mankind
544 XVI | indulgence of divinity as an example to our own weakness? Can
545 XIV | nature with the Stoics, exceed it with the Cynics. Since
546 XII | enfeebled are they by the excessive lassitude of a pampered
547 VII | was worthy to be taken in exchange for his time. And so that
548 VII | sickness for the purpose of exciting the greed of the legacy-hunters?
549 I | the greatest of physicians exclaim that "life is short, art
550 VI | the cradle, and to have exclaimed that he was the only person
551 XIV | discourteous to deceive than to exclude. How many, still half asleep
552 XVI | sponsors, and to present the excused indulgence of divinity as
553 XIII | at other times they were exhibited in chains, and that javelin-throwers
554 XVI | they do when a gladiatorial exhibition\b is been announced, or
555 I(3) | maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam vitam dedisset; quorum si
556 VII | has not lived long—he has existed long. For what if you should
557 II | small."5 For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely
558 IX | greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon the
559 XVI | men? They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night
560 I | that led Aristotle,3 while expostulating with Nature, to enter an
561 III | never could they adequately express their wonder at this dense
562 VI | the happiest of men, have expressed their loathing for every
563 III | face ever wore its natural expression, when your mind was ever
564 XIII(29) | turbae, delectatio nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia
565 V(12) | Not extant. ~~
566 XIII | times it was customary to extend after the acquisition of
567 XIII | last of the Roman's who extended the pomerium,31 which in
568 XII | elegant, and to such an extent do their evils follow them
569 XX | tomb; some who have come to extreme old age, while they adjusted
570 XIII(29) | recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum dies fuit,
571 XIX | ground and turn your mind's eye upon these things! Now while
572 XII | imagine that the mimes26 fabricate many things to make a mock
573 XII(24) | noster eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit, otiosum esse quam
574 IV | sacred oath, oft alarmed his failing years—and there was Paulus,
575 XV | What happiness, what a fair old age awaits him who has
576 XIV | thousand times! ~ But we may fairly say that they alone are
577 XIII | tell these things in good faith, though they pledge themselves
578 XIII(29) | occasion are recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum
579 XIII | and was the first of the family of the Valerii to bear the
580 XX | view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed,
581 XII(26) | the popular mimes, or low farces, that were often censured
582 VII | great crowd that stretches farther than he can be heard, yet
583 III | that you have reached the farthest limit of human life, you
584 VII | man who had prayed for the fasces,17 when he attains them,
585 XIV | all those men, glorious fashioners of holy thoughts, were born
586 IX | slow though time flies so fast? The poet speaks to you
587 XIII(27) | made of tablets of wood fastened together. ~~
588 XII | the reputation of being fastidious and elegant, and to such
589 I(1) | usually identified with the father of a certain Pompeius Paulinus,
590 VII | laying snares, how much to fearing them, how much to paying
591 XII | same age and colour? Who feeds all the newest athletes?
592 XIV | allows us to enter into fellowship with every age, why should
593 VI | and to make his influence felt in the law-courts, so powerfully,
594 XII | disreputable and that will one day fester. Even the leisure of some
595 II | dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever
596 XVII(38) | he was ploughing his own fields. ~~
597 VII | who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left
598 VII | throughout the whole forum, and fills all the place with a great
599 VII | them time to breathe. ~ Finally, everybody agrees that no
600 IX | beguiles the traveller, and he finds that he has reached the
601 XII | are always snapping their fingers as they beat time to some
602 XII | leisure25 who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes,
603 X | more brook delay than the firmament or the stars, whose ever
604 I | animals that they drag out five or ten lifetimes,4 but that
605 VIII | indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on the object
606 XII | shearing a real man! How they flare up if any of their mane
607 XV | without insult, praise without flattery, and after whose likeness
608 IX | Unless you seize the day, it flees." Even though you seize
609 XIV | turn from this paltry and fleeting span of time and surrender
610 XVIII | and who ever hampers the fleetness of such high-born creatures
611 IX | unconcerned and slow though time flies so fast? The poet speaks
612 XVII | some in battle, some in flight, and within a short time
613 II | those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered
614 IX | rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.
615 X | always in motion, it ever flows and hurries on; it ceases
616 V | V. Marcus Cicero, long flung among men like Catiline
617 IX | about this very day that is flying. Is there, then, any doubt
618 XIII | great number. It was once a foible confined to the Greeks to
619 XII | crushed in their own crowd of followers, or scornfully in someone
620 XVI | find life long. In their folly they are harassed by shifting
621 XI | out that they have been fools, because they have not really
622 XII | side and that toward the forehead? How angry they get if the
623 IX | those who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves very
624 IV | prayed for has led me to forestall some of its delight by the
625 XVI | XVI. But those who forget the past, neglect the present,
626 IX | making ready to live! They form their purposes with a view
627 XIII | the ancients a structure formed by joining together several
628 IV(8) | ceditque oneri Fortuna suo. ~~
629 XVI | the madness of poets in fostering human frailties by the tales
630 I(4) | i.e., of man. Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach):~ ’
631 XVI | poets in fostering human frailties by the tales in which they
632 III | forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of
633 II | crowd about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the
634 XIX | under orders in case of the freest things in the world—loving
635 XV | will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your
636 V | as he is tossed to and fro along with the state and
637 I(3) | esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis artibus
638 | fuit
639 XIV | no rest, when they have fully indulged their madness,
640 XX | works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals.
641 I(3) | potuisset esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis
642 VII | after setting great value on gaining the chance to give them,
643 XVIII | corn to your charge; you gave hope of something greater
644 I(4) | Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~
645 XIII(29) | quandam illi beluae cum genere humana societatem." ~~
646 I | been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment
647 X | of to-day, but one of the genuine and old-fashioned kind,
648 IX(19) | Virgil, Georgics, iii. 66 sq. ~~
649 I(4) | κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν γηράντω· ἔλαφος δέ τε
650 I | an end just when they are getting ready to live. Nor is it
651 XX | dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres
652 IV | consolation with which he would gladden his labours—that he would
653 XVI | exactly as they do when a gladiatorial exhibition\b is been announced,
654 VIII | swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong
655 XII | those whom you see either gloriously crushed in their own crowd
656 IX | Whither do you look? At what goal do you aim? All things that
657 XII(23) | captured or confiscated goods were put up for sale. ~~
658 XVII | canvass for others. Have we got rid of the troubles of a
659 VI | the evil measures of the Gracchi, seeing no way out for his
660 XIII | called Messala after the gradual corruption of the name in
661 I(1) | official who superintended the grain supply of Rome, and was,
662 XIX | oversea poured into the granaries, unhurt either by the dishonesty
663 IV(11) | characterization of Julia and his two grandchildren in Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "
664 XIII | same sort? For though you grant that they tell these things
665 I | this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily
666 VI(13) | proposed a corn law and the granting of citizenship to the Italians. ~~
667 XVII | vast plains and could not grasp its number but simply its
668 X | brief that it cannot be grasped, and even this is filched
669 III(7) | 100 he should "come to his grave in a full age, like as a
670 XVII(34) | Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C. ~~
671 X | treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered,
672 III | sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements
673 XIII | a foible confined to the Greeks to inquire into what number
674 XIV | carried around their venal greeting to houses that are very
675 XII | being stripped of whatever grew out the night before? while
676 VII | lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has
677 XVIII | Gaius Caesar died—still grieving most deeply (if the dead
678 VI | sudden wound received in his groin, some doubting whether his
679 XVII | causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly as they are born. But of
680 IV | themselves, others would grow in their place; just as
681 VII | another, for, guarding it most grudgingly, he found nothing that was
682 III | public duties." And what guarantee, pray, have you that your
683 XV | there will be no need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit;
684 VIII | may be; but that must be guarded more carefully which will
685 I | it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our
686 XIV | are not content to be good guardians of their own lifetime only.
687 XVIII(41)| populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!" (Suetonius, Calig. 30),
688 VIII | most devotedly they have a habit of saying that they are
689 XII | pampering to unlearn the habits of human life—when he had
690 X(21) | fate of the Danaids, who in Hades forever poured water into
691 VII | long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not
692 XIV | avoid passing out through a hall that is crowded with clients,
693 XII | doors, or whom the praetor's hammer23 keeps busy in seeking
694 XVIII | thoroughbred horses, and who ever hampers the fleetness of such high-born
695 II | an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others,
696 XVII | undertaking; victorious over Hannibal, victorious over Antiochus,
697 II | and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the
698 VI | though others deemed them the happiest of men, have expressed their
699 IV | of nations, thought most happily of that future day on which
700 XV | that you can desire. What happiness, what a fair old age awaits
701 XVI | In their folly they are harassed by shifting emotions which
702 XVIII | is indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the happy life,
703 XX | they judge old age to be a hardship on no other score than because
704 XVI | they spend in the arms of a harlot or in wine! It is this also
705 XV | has consecrated cannot be harmed; no age will destroy them,
706 XX | pleasure for a man to die in harness? Yet very many have the
707 XVII | him busy. Does Quintius38 hasten to get to the end of his
708 VIII | have been engrossed, life hastens by; meanwhile death will
709 XVI | are not long to them, but hateful; yet, on the other hand,
710 XIX | in the world—loving and hating. If these wish to know how
711 XVIII | it is difficult to avoid hatred; but nevertheless believe
712 VII | whether busied with unjust hatreds or with unjust wars, these
713 X | to divide my subject into heads with their separate proofs,
714 XII | are engaged in composing, hearing, and learning songs, while
715 XIX | that it does not become heated and spoiled by collecting
716 II | deep sea which continue to heave even after the storm is
717 XIX | is that upholds all the heaviest matter in the centre of
718 III | already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if
719 XX | from his long delayed45 heir. I cannot pass over an instance
720 VII | wearied with burying her heirs?16 Of how many that man
721 XVIII(43)| who laid a bridge over the Hellespont. ~~
722 XI | and that they will live henceforth in leisure if only they
723 I | is it merely the common herd and the unthinking crowd
724 XII | lads? Who sorts out the herds of his pack-mules into pairs
725 II | of Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know
726 I(4) | i.e., of man. Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach):~ ’
727 XI | come, the wise man will not hesitate to go to meet death with
728 XVIII | hampers the fleetness of such high-born creatures with a heavy pack?
729 XVII | chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable
730 II | men from the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate,6
731 IV | that the most powerful and highly placed men let drop remarks
732 IX | hereafter. The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy,
733 I(2) | The famous aphorism of Hippocrates of Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, &#
734 VIII | doles, and for these they hire out their labour or service
735 XVIII | than all those you have hitherto performed so energetically,
736 XVII(35) | times a space capable of holding 10,000 men was filled (Herodotus,
737 X | out through the chinks and holes of the mind. Present time
738 XIV | glorious fashioners of holy thoughts, were born for
739 XIV | of these will be "not at home," no one of these will fail
740 XII | call forth from their own homes to bump them against someone
741 I(3) | quorum id nihil interesset, hominibus, quorum maxime interfuisset,
742 I(3) | perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~~
743 XVIII | accounts of the whole world as honestly as you would a stranger'
744 XVIII | a service that is indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the
745 XVIII | loads than thoroughbred horses, and who ever hampers the
746 XIX | Now while the blood is hot, we must enter with brisk
747 VII | pleasure is there that any hour can now bring? They are
748 XX | he were dead. The whole house bemoaned the leisure of
749 XX | mourned by the assembled household as if he were dead. The
750 XV | sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects;
751 XIV | their venal greeting to houses that are very far apart—
752 XIII(29) | quandam illi beluae cum genere humana societatem." ~~
753 XII | head, who are overheard humming a tune when they have been
754 | id
755 IV(8) | The idea is that greatness sinks
756 I(1) | Paulina, and is usually identified with the father of a certain
757 XII | in leisure, but in busy idleness.24 Would you say that that
758 XVIII | while the patient is kept in ignorance; knowledge of their disease
759 XX | courting the applause of an ignorant circle, he is pleading for
760 II | II. Why do we complain of Nature?
761 XIII | Ulysses had, whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written
762 X | their thoughts backward to ill-spent hours, and those whose vices
763 | illi
764 XI | only they escape from this illness; then at last they reflect
765 XII | he is doing. After this imagine that the mimes26 fabricate
766 XVIII | lack of provisions; his imitation of a mad and foreign and
767 III | mortals and all the desires of immortals. You will hear many men
768 I(1) | was, therefore, a man of importance. He was, believably, a near
769 VI | neither hold it back, nor impose delay upon the swiftest
770 XIII(29) | curses upon Pompey. Cicero's impressions of the occasion are recorded
771 XX | without pleasure, without any improvement of the mind. No one keeps
772 XVIII | you to slothful or idle inaction, or to drown all your native
773 IX | whatever length your greed inclines, do you stretch before yourself
774 XI | it, so to speak, yields income. And so, however small the
775 VIII | to live! So great is the inconsistency of their feelings. But if
776 IV | be devoid of dignity nor inconsistent with his former glory, I
777 II | fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged
778 VIII | blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because it does not
779 XV | succeeding age will but increase the reverence for them,
780 I | entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply
781 XII(26) | often censured for their indecencies. ~~
782 I | with Nature, to enter an indictment most unbecoming to a wise
783 II | show the most senseless indignation — they complain of the insolence
784 XX | crawled up through a thousand indignities to the crowning dignity,
785 IV | determined the fortune of individuals and of nations, thought
786 XII | the meanderings of some indolent tune, who are always snapping
787 XIII | inquire into this—who first induced the Romans to go on board
788 XIV | rest, when they have fully indulged their madness, when they
789 XVI | and to present the excused indulgence of divinity as an example
790 VIII | from whom they ask it most indulgent. Both of them fix their
791 XVIII | tested worth and painstaking industry. But plodding oxen are much
792 IX | worded to cast censure upon infinite delay, in that he says,
793 XVII | of a court. Has he become infirm in managing the property
794 XI | time. But when at last some infirmity has reminded them of their
795 XVI | night. For what is it but to inflame our vices to inscribe the
796 VI | accused, and to make his influence felt in the law-courts,
797 XV | to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but
798 XX(45) | i.e., long kept out of his inheritance. ~~
799 II | possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion
800 XVI | to inflame our vices to inscribe the name of the gods as
801 XX | they have but toiled for an inscription on a tomb; some who have
802 XVII | shed copious tears because inside of a hundred years not a
803 IX | bards cries out, and, as if inspired with divine utterance, sings
804 X | I say that they must be instructed, not merely wept over.
805 XV | he may hear truth without insult, praise without flattery,
806 VII(15) | some editors to doubt the integrity of the passage. ~~
807 III | and sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point
808 III | days have passed as you had intended, when you were ever at your
809 I(3) | diuturnam, quorum id nihil interesset, hominibus, quorum maxime
810 XIII | will permit someone to be interested also in this—the fact that
811 I(3) | hominibus, quorum maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam vitam dedisset;
812 XVI | occupy them, and all the intervening time is irksome; exactly
813 XIV | Theophrastus, as their most intimate friends every day. No one
814 IV(10) | to death by reason of his intrigue with the elder Julia. ~~
815 XVII(34) | Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C. ~~
816 XII | pass over more than they invent, and such a multitude of
817 I | the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered
818 XVI | Nor because they sometimes invoke death, have you any reason
819 | ipso
820 XVIII(41)| Calig. 30), cited in De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The logic of
821 XVI | the intervening time is irksome; exactly as they do when
822 IV(9) | banished by Augustus to the island of Pandataria. ~~
823 XII | what style the wild boar issues from the hands of the cook,
824 XIII | after the acquisition of Italian but never of provincial,
825 VI(13) | granting of citizenship to the Italians. ~~
826 VI | huge crowd drawn from all Italy proposed new laws and the
827 IV(10) | and Cleopatra; in 2 B.C. Iullus Antonius, younger son of
828 IV | IV. You will see that the most
829 IX | IX. Can anything be sillier
830 XIII | exhibited in chains, and that javelin-throwers were sent by King Bocchus
831 XIII | should learn them and be jealous of an act that was nowise
832 III(7) | cometh in in his season" (Job v. 26); but he is still
833 XIII | ancients a structure formed by joining together several boards
834 XVII | he would be set beside Jove39; but the discord of civilians
835 III | useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the
836 IV | Nevertheless, since the joyful reality is still far distant,
837 XVI | which they represent that Jupiter under the enticement of
838 VI | commend to the favour of a jury those who were accused,
839 XVIII | reason, nor is appeased by justice, nor is bent by any entreaty.
840 XVIII | corn-market. Recall that keen mind of yours, which is
841 II(5) | Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν &#
842 XIII | notable kind of spectacle to kill human beings after a new
843 II | Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to
844 XIII | leaders28 of old for the kindness of his heart, thought it
845 XVII | last?" This feeling has led kings to weep over the power they
846 VIII | these same people clasp the knees of physicians if they fall
847 XVIII | any feeling) because he knew that the Roman people were
848 I(4) | τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν γηράντω&#
849 XVII | for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity
850 I(4) | ἀνδρῶν γηράντω· ἔλαφος δέ τε τετρακόρωνος. ~~
851 III | too, the time that has lain idle and unused; you will
852 XVII | is old, his ambition will lake delight in stubborn exile.40
853 I(4) | Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν
854 IV(11) | The language is reminiscent of Augustus'
855 XV | there is nothing that the lapse of time does not tear down
856 XII | are they by the excessive lassitude of a pampered mind that
857 IV | against his colleagues, and lastly against his relatives, he
858 XX | desire for their labour lasts longer than their ability;
859 V | consulship of his, which he had lauded without end, though not
860 XII | let in drive out from the law-court, those whom you see either
861 VI | his influence felt in the law-courts, so powerfully, indeed,
862 VI | from all Italy proposed new laws and the evil measures of
863 XII(22) | and caught the engrossed lawyer still at his task. ~~
864 VII | to accounts, how much to laying snares, how much to fearing
865 XIX | your soul; where Nature lays us to rest When we are freed
866 III | nay, they themselves even lead in those who will eventually
867 XIII | in a mimic battle? He, a leader of the state and one who,
868 XIII | was conspicuous among the leaders28 of old for the kindness
869 XVII | the place of the old, hope leads to new hope, ambition to
870 IV | need to fear a woman in league with an Antony.10 When be
871 XX | Shameful is he whose breath leaves him in the midst of a trial
872 XI | of life, and not merely leaving it. They cry out that they
873 X | who was none of your lecture-room philosophers of to-day,
874 XVIII | to have knowledge of the ledger of one's own life than of
875 VI | favourable verdict. To what lengths was not such premature ambition
876 II(6) | his presence and advice lent support in court. ~~
877 IV | swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were
878 XIII | things pass into oblivion lest hereafter some all-powerful
879 X | unresting movement never lets them abide in the same track.
880 XVII | higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover,
881 V | undiminished and stable liberty, being free and his own
882 XIV | good guardians of their own lifetime only. They annex ever age
883 I | they drag out five or ten lifetimes,4 but that a much shorter
884 II | permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment
885 XIV | night's debauch, scarcely lifting their lips in the midst
886 XV | flattery, and after whose likeness he may fashion himself. ~
887 VII | deal out the rest as she likes; his life has already found
888 IV | ulcers11 together with the limbs themselves, others would
889 XV | alone is freed from the limitations of the human race; all ages
890 I | owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a
891 XIV | to pass beyond the narrow limits of human weakness, there
892 V | what I am doing here? I am lingering in my Tusculan villa half
893 VII | them?" That advocate is lionized throughout the whole forum,
894 XIII | first to exhibit loosed lions in the Circus, though at
895 II | sometimes condescend to listen to your words, he permits
896 XVIII | A hungry people neither listens to reason, nor is appeased
897 XIII | spend their time on useless literary problems, of whom even among
898 XVII(40) | politics, he died in exile at Liternum. ~~
899 XX | he is pleading for some litigant who is the veriest stranger;
900 XII | thither in a sedan-chair and a litter, and are punctual at the
901 VI | round. Heaven knows! such lives as yours, though they should
902 VI | VI. When Livius Drusus,13 a bold and energetic
903 XIII(31) | within and (according to Livy, i. 44) without the city
904 XVIII | suited to carrying heavy loads than thoroughbred horses,
905 VI | men, have expressed their loathing for every act of their years,
906 XII | while either disarranged locks are restored to their place
907 XVIII(41)| De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The logic of the whole passage suffers
908 II | them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does
909 IV | rupture somewhere. And so he longed for leisure, in the hope
910 I(3) | si aetas potuisset esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus
911 VII | it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.
912 XIII | was the first to exhibit loosed lions in the Circus, though
913 VII(15) | sketchily presented. The looseness of the structure has led
914 XII | if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of it lies out
915 III | not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in
916 XV | parents who fell to our lot, that they have been given
917 XVI | enticement of the pleasures of a lover doubled the length of the
918 XIX | freest things in the world—loving and hating. If these wish
919 XII(26) | in the popular mimes, or low farces, that were often
920 II | of all these men from the lowest to the highest—this man
921 XIII | also in this—the fact that Lucius Sulla was the first to exhibit
922 XVIII | concealed the great evil that lurked in the vitals of the state—
923 II | and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I
924 II(5) | epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐντα&#
925 II(5) | 8166;θα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔτη τόσα,
926 IV | land and sea. ~ Through Macedonia, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, and
927 XIII(30) | i.e., Magnus. ~~
928 X | against the passions with main force, not with artifice,
929 XVII | than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need
930 I | I. The majority of mortals, Paulinus,1 complain
931 IX | better; they spend life in making ready to live! They form
932 I(2) | 7969; δὲ τέχνη μακρή. ~~
933 XVIII | may be sure. For certain maladies must be treated while the
934 VII(18) | At this time the management of the public games was
935 XVII | Has he become infirm in managing the property of others at
936 XII | flare up if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of
937 XII | Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a few makes costly, and
938 VII | wars, these all sin in more manly fashion. But those who are
939 VII | nevertheless go astray in a seemly manner; though you should cite
940 V | V. Marcus Cicero, long flung among
941 IV(10) | had been pitted against Mark Antony and Cleopatra; in
942 II | will see that these are the marks that distinguish them: A
943 XX | that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications
944 VII | seen that mere boys have mastered so thoroughly that they
945 XIII | between creatures so ill matched, when he was shedding so
946 I(3) | interesset, hominibus, quorum maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam
947 XII | straightforward, into the meanderings of some indolent tune, who
948 XII(25) | For the technical meaning of otiosi, "the leisured,"
949 XX | themselves than from the law. Meantime, while they rob and are
950 VI | proposed new laws and the evil measures of the Gracchi, seeing no
951 IX | conversation or reading or deep meditation on some subject beguiles
952 XII | summoned to serious, often even melancholy, matters? These have not
953 XIII | these same matters—the man I mentioned related that Metellus, when
954 VII | of them we have seen that mere boys have mastered so thoroughly
955 VI | years, will shrink into the merest span; your vices will swallow
956 XIII | himself, and was later called Messala after the gradual corruption
957 XIII | I mentioned related that Metellus, when he triumphed after
958 XVIII(42)| Three and a half miles long, reaching from Baiae
959 XIII | criminals against them in a mimic battle? He, a leader of
960 X | day at a time, and each by minutes; but all the days of past
961 XII | occupied with the comb and the mirror? And what of those who are
962 XIII(29) | nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia quaedam consecuta est atque
963 VII | or their other glorious miseries: "I have no chance to live."
964 III | which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most
965 VI | great personal and public misfortune. And so it was too late
966 X | beyond the reach of all human mishaps, and removed from the dominion
967 XVIII | of a mad and foreign and misproud king43 was very nearly at
968 XIII | they write, still whose mistakes will be made fewer by such
969 XII | fabricate many things to make a mock of luxury! In very truth,
970 XIX | and spoiled by collecting moisture and tallies in weight and
971 XVIII(42)| reaching from Baiae to the mole of Puteoli (Suetonius, Calig.
972 X | under some allurement of momentary pleasure, do not have the
973 III | willing to distribute his money, yet among how many does
974 III | time was taken up with a moneylender, how much with a mistress,
975 XIII | be crushed by animals of monstrous bulk! Better would it be
976 IX | stretch before yourself months and years in long array,
977 XV | into immortality. Honours, monuments, all that ambition has commanded
978 I(3) | 69: "Theophrastus autem moriens accusasse naturam dicitur,
979 XIV(33) | salutatio was held in the early morning. ~~
980 X | none; for it is always in motion, it ever flows and hurries
981 XIII | profitable to know this than that Mount Aventine, according to him,
982 XX | out on his bed and to be mourned by the assembled household
983 XIII(29) | that the people were so moved by pity that they rose in
984 XII | they invent, and such a multitude of unbelievable vices has
985 IV | Rome itself the swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius,
986 II(5) | κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔτη τόσα, ζήσας δ&#
987 XIV | mind, to pass beyond the narrow limits of human weakness,
988 IV | fortune of individuals and of nations, thought most happily of
989 XVIII | inaction, or to drown all your native energy in slumbers and the
990 III | your face ever wore its natural expression, when your mind
991 VI | can prolong, although it naturally hurries away, of necessity
992 I(3) | autem moriens accusasse naturam dicitur, quod cervis et
993 XIII | was the first who won a naval battle, Curius Dentatus
994 I(1) | importance. He was, believably, a near relative of Seneca's wife,
995 XVIII | misproud king43 was very nearly at the cost of the city'
996 | nec
997 VII | life by the public, have necessarily had too little of it. ~
998 VII | has had. None of it lay neglected and idle; none of it was
999 I(1) | high public posts under Nero (Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiii.
1000 XII | colour? Who feeds all the newest athletes? Tell me, would
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