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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life

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1503 V | not without reason! How tearful the words he uses in a letter12 1504 XVII | measure,35 he shed copious tears because inside of a hundred 1505 I(2) | βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή. ~~ 1506 XIII | XIII. It would be tedious to mention all the different 1507 XIII | few days I heard someone telling who was the first Roman 1508 XVII(36) | Herodotus, vii. 45, 46 tells the story. ~~ 1509 I | that they drag out five or ten lifetimes,4 but that a much 1510 VI | own lips have given true testimony against themselves; but 1511 I(4) | 903; ἔλαφος δέ τε τετρακόρωνος. ~~ 1512 XVIII(41)| from the uncertainty of the text. ~~ 1513 II | voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; 1514 XV | it will be no fault of theirs if you do not draw the utmost 1515 III | concentrate upon this one theme, never could they adequately 1516 XII | restored to their place or thinning ones drawn from this side 1517 XVIII | carrying heavy loads than thoroughbred horses, and who ever hampers 1518 VII | mere boys have mastered so thoroughly that they could even play 1519 XVII(35) | the plain of Doriscus in Thrace the huge land force was 1520 XIV | day crossed everybody's threshold, and have left no open door 1521 II | pleasures! To how many does the throng of clients that crowd about 1522 VII | times in the midst of their throngs of clients, or their pleadings 1523 XIII | carry provisions up the Tiber are even to-day called codicariae. 1524 XII | plate, how diligently they tie up the tunics of their pretty 1525 VI | no one, whether it was timely. ~ It would be superfluous 1526 XX | though they had lived but the tiniest span. ~~~~ 1527 I(4) | Rzach):~          ’Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~           1528 XX | thought that they have but toiled for an inscription on a 1529 II | insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are 1530 XX | for an inscription on a tomb; some who have come to extreme 1531 XX | beyond lifehuge masses of tombs and dedications of public 1532 XIX | high, carries fire to the topmost part, summons the stars 1533 XX | conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers,47 as though 1534 IX | using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will 1535 XIV | many who, when they have tortured them with long waiting, 1536 II(5) | 8058;ς μὲν ἔτη τόσα, ζήσας δὲ ἔτη &# 1537 VII | voyaging did he have, but much tossing about. ~ 1538 V | free and his own master and towering over all others. For what 1539 X | lets them abide in the same track. The engrossed, therefore, 1540 II | driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and 1541 XVIII | reflect that in all your training in the liberal studies, 1542 X | mind that is untroubled and tranquil has the power to roam into 1543 XIII | surname Messana because be had transferred the name of the conquered 1544 XIX | the neglect of those who transport it, in seeing that it does 1545 IX | some subject beguiles the traveller, and he finds that he has 1546 X | scorned, recklessly conquered, treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, 1547 XIII | betrayed by Alexandrine treachery, offered himself to the 1548 XVIII | certain maladies must be treated while the patient is kept 1549 III | yet they allow others to trespass upon their lifenay, they 1550 IV(11) | appellare quam tris vomicas ac tria carcinomata sua" ("his trio 1551 VI | well known that in certain trials he forced a favourable verdict. 1552 VI(13) | As tribune in 91 B.C. he proposed a 1553 VIII | what is given, nothing. Men trifle with the most precious thing 1554 XIII | that those are laborious triflers who spend their time on 1555 XII | concerned to have his head trim rather than safe? Who would 1556 IV(11) | aliter eos appellare quam tris vomicas ac tria carcinomata 1557 XIII | had elephants led in his triumph. Still, these matters, even 1558 XIII | related that Metellus, when he triumphed after his victory over the 1559 IV(10) | Antonius, younger son of the triumvir, was sentenced to death 1560 VI | from boyhood he had been a trouble-maker and a nuisance in the forum. 1561 XVII | Have we got rid of the troubles of a prosecutor? We find 1562 XVII | time is fortune less wisely trusted than when it is best; to 1563 XVIII | laborious and unceasing proofstry how it will behave in leisure. 1564 V | conquered, and the son was still trying to restore his shattered 1565 XII | diligently they tie up the tunics of their pretty slave-boys, 1566 XX | which occurs to me. Sextus46 Turannius was an old man of long tested 1567 XIII(29) | admiratio magna vulgi atque turbae, delectatio nulla exstitit; 1568 XV | prolonging mortalitynay, of turning it into immortality. Honours, 1569 X | hours. No one willingly turns his thought back to the 1570 I(3) | Theophrastus, as shown by Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iii. 69: "Theophrastus 1571 V | here? I am lingering in my Tusculan villa half a prisoner." 1572 XIII | had caused a hundred and twenty captured elephants to be 1573 XII | learning songs, while they twist the voice, whose best and 1574 VII(15) | i.e., the various types of occupati that have been 1575 I | end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that 1576 XIII | into what number of rowers Ulysses had, whether the Iliad or 1577 V | to be at last swept away, unable as he was to be restful 1578 | unam 1579 X | it is an everlasting and unanxious possession. The present 1580 IX | come to it unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision 1581 XIV(32) | certainty of knowledge was unattainable. ~~ 1582 II | course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn— 1583 I | enter an indictment most unbecoming to a wise manthat, in point 1584 XII | and such a multitude of unbelievable vices has come forth in 1585 IX | and years in long array, unconcerned and slow though time flies 1586 XVII | is ripe for so great an undertaking; victorious over Hannibal, 1587 II(6) | Not one who undertook the actual defense, but 1588 V | who always possesses an undiminished and stable liberty, being 1589 IX | stumbled upon it suddenly and unexpectedly, they did not notice that 1590 XIV | store. Unless we are most ungrateful, all those men, glorious 1591 XIX | poured into the granaries, unhurt either by the dishonesty 1592 I | what is, as men deem it, an universal ill; the same feeling has 1593 II(5) | A prose rendering of an unknown poet. Cf. the epitaph quoted 1594 XII | their rides as if it were unlawful to omit them, who are reminded 1595 XII | can call it pampering to unlearn the habits of human life— 1596 III | when your mind was ever unperturbed, what work you have achieved 1597 IX | childish, and they come to it unprepared and unarmed, for they have 1598 VI | bitterly against the life of unrest he had had from the cradle, 1599 X | or the stars, whose ever unresting movement never lets them 1600 XVII | comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, 1601 I | the common herd and the unthinking crowd that bemoan what is, 1602 X | to do. The mind that is untroubled and tranquil has the power 1603 XIV | and have left no open door unvisited, when they have carried 1604 X | regret. They are, therefore, unwilling to direct their thoughts 1605 XIX | what the principle is that upholds all the heaviest matter 1606 XII | rather be well barbered than upright? Would you say that these 1607 XIII | excusebut does it serve any useful purpose to know that Pompey 1608 XI | at last they reflect how uselessly they have striven for things 1609 IX | swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent 1610 VI | they fall back into their usual round. Heaven knows! such 1611 I(1) | Pompeia Paulina, and is usually identified with the father 1612 | utinam 1613 XV | theirs if you do not draw the utmost that you can desire. What 1614 XIII(31) | a consecrated space kept vacant within and (according to 1615 VII | yet he says: "When will vacation time come?" Everyone hurries 1616 XIII | first of the family of the Valerii to bear the surname Messana 1617 XIII | some pointthe fact that Valerius Corvinus was the first to 1618 X | behind. And so their life vanishes into an abyss; and as it 1619 XIV | so huge and torn by such varied desires, how few will they 1620 XVII | spread his army over the vast plains and could not grasp 1621 XIV | have carried around their venal greeting to houses that 1622 VI | others. For when they have vented their feelings in words, 1623 VI | trials he forced a favourable verdict. To what lengths was not 1624 XX | some litigant who is the veriest stranger; disgraceful is 1625 XVII | discord of civilians will vex their preserver, and, when 1626 VI | VI. When Livius Drusus,13 a 1627 XIII | when he triumphed after his victory over the Carthaginians in 1628 IX | flee; therefore you must vie with time's swiftness in 1629 XVII | their fortune, as they have viewed with terror the end to which 1630 XIII | himself to the dagger of the vilest slave, and then at last 1631 IX(19) | Virgil, Georgics, iii. 66 sq. ~~ 1632 XVIII | life; long enough has your virtue been displayed in laborious 1633 XIX | love and practice of the virtues, forgetfulness of the passions, 1634 XIV | these will fail to have his visitor leave more happy and more 1635 I(3) | artibus omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~~ 1636 XVIII | evil that lurked in the vitals of the statewith good reason, 1637 XII | songs, while they twist the voice, whose best and simplest 1638 IV(11) | eos appellare quam tris vomicas ac tria carcinomata sua" (" 1639 IV | Augustus, to whom the gods vouchsafed more than to any other man, 1640 VII | that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a 1641 VII | the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing 1642 XIII(29) | in quo admiratio magna vulgi atque turbae, delectatio 1643 XIV | own slumber33 in order to wait on that of another, the 1644 IX | at the same pace whether waking or sleeping; those who are 1645 XIX | by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, 1646 XIII(31) | i. 44) without the city wall. The right of extending 1647 VI | For, while he was still a ward and wearing the dress of 1648 II | to himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another. 1649 IX | depends upon the morrow and wastes to-day. You dispose of that 1650 III | it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the 1651 XII | slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch to see in what style the 1652 XII(22) | Apparently watch-dogs that were let in at nightfall, 1653 XII | that are not even Roman) watching the wrangling of lads? Who 1654 II | find some release, like the waters of the deep sea which continue 1655 XVIII | harbour. Think of how many waves you have encountered, how 1656 XX | the light of torches and wax tapers,47 as though they 1657 VII | has risen far above human weaknesses not to allow any of his 1658 XV | die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each 1659 VII | how many that old woman wearied with burying her heirs?16 1660 VII | yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who 1661 IV | and when his troops were weary of shedding Roman blood, 1662 XVII | feeling has led kings to weep over the power they possessed, 1663 X | the engrossed, just as if weighted by a yoke, cannot turn and 1664 XIII | boards was called a caudex, whence also the Tables of the Law 1665 IV | Egnatius, and others were being whetted to slay him. Not yet had 1666 XIV | name only after it has been whispered to them a thousand times! ~ 1667 IX | which lies in your own. Whither do you look? At what goal 1668 III | of mortality to postpone wholesome plans to the fiftieth and 1669 VII | long because he has devoted wholly to himself whatever time 1670 XV | yet we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there 1671 XV | philosopher, therefore, has wide range, and he is not confined 1672 III | one is to be found who is willing to distribute his money, 1673 X | revert to those hours. No one willingly turns his thought back to 1674 VIII | will be at hand, for which, willy nilly, you must find leisure. 1675 XVIII | you would the state's. You win love in an office in which 1676 VII | thither by a succession of winds that raged from different 1677 XIII | knowledge, nevertheless it wins our attention by reason 1678 XII | carefully unhappy little lads wipe up the spittle of drunkards. 1679 III | life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot 1680 XVII | no time is fortune less wisely trusted than when it is 1681 II | busy to see them when they wished an audience! But can anyone 1682 XVIII | you have lived, at length withdraw into a peaceful harbour. 1683 XII | solitude, although they have withdrawn from all others, they are 1684 XIII | Duilius was the first who won a naval battle, Curius Dentatus 1685 XIX | in turn, full of mighty wonders? You really must leave the 1686 XV | fashion himself. ~ We are wont to say that it was not in 1687 XIII(27) | codex was made of tablets of wood fastened together. ~~ 1688 IX | the bard is most admirably worded to cast censure upon infinite 1689 III | disposal, when your face ever wore its natural expression, 1690 II | some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude 1691 IV | drew forth, how many secret worries they concealed. Forced to 1692 XVIII | no lack of men of tested worth and painstaking industry. 1693 VII | he found nothing that was worthy to be taken in exchange 1694 VI | for he fell from a sudden wound received in his groin, some 1695 VII | avaricious, the men who are wrathful, whether busied with unjust 1696 XIV | beautiful that have been wrested from darkness and brought 1697 XII | copper? Who sits in a public wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we 1698 VII | because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived longhe 1699 XIII | for the truth of what they write, still whose mistakes will 1700 X | X. Should I choose to divide 1701 XII | XII. Perhaps you ask whom I 1702 XIV | XIV. Of all men they alone are 1703 XIX | XIX. Do you retire to these 1704 XVI | XVI. But those who forget the 1705 XVII | XVII. The very pleasures of such 1706 XVIII | XVIII. And so, my dearest Paulinus, 1707 XX | XX. And so when you see a man 1708 I(1) | Nero (Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiii. 143; Tacitus, Annals, xiii. 1709 VII | life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness 1710 XI | whole of it, so to speak, yields income. And so, however 1711 X | just as if weighted by a yoke, cannot turn and look behind. 1712 XIV | yawn, manage to bestow on yonder poor wretches, who break 1713 XVII | preserver, and, when as a young man he had scorned honours 1714 XX | new hopes as if it were youth, have had it fail from sheer 1715 IV | daughter9 and all the noble youths who were bound to her by 1716 XIV | life who shall wish to have Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus, 1717 II(5) | 8050;ν ἔτη τόσα, ζήσας δὲ ἔτη ἑ 1718 I(4) | Rzach):~          ’Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~          


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