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