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501 XVIII | how many waves you have encountered, how many storms, on the
502 VII | having laid aside all their encumbrances, having renounced riches,
503 XV | friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting
504 XX | their great and shameless endeavours. Shameful is he whose breath
505 II | s company, but could not endure your own. ~
506 VI | Livius Drusus, 13 a bold and energetic man, had with the support
507 XVIII | have hitherto performed so energetically, to occupy you in the midst
508 XVIII | to drown all your native energy in slumbers and the pleasures
509 XII | when they must dine; so enfeebled are they by the excessive
510 XII(24) | Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime
511 VII | all known, all have been enjoyed to the full. Mistress Fortune
512 I(4) | 183 (Rzach):~ ’Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα
513 XIII | any studies than to become entangled in these. ~
514 II(5) | Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔτη τόσα,
515 III | thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time
516 XVI | represent that Jupiter under the enticement of the pleasures of a lover
517 XVIII | justice, nor is bent by any entreaty. Very recently within those
518 XVIII | that it might be safe to entrust many thousand pecks of corn
519 I | however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases
520 IV(11) | nec (solebat) aliter eos appellare quam tris vomicas
521 XIV | Carneades, find peace with Epicurus, overcome human nature with
522 XII(24) | Cf. Pliny, Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim,
523 II(5) | an unknown poet. Cf. the epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix.
524 II(5) | μὲν ἔτη τόσα, ζήσας δὲ ἔτη ἑπτά. ~
525 I(3) | An error for Theophrastus, as shown
526 I(3) | omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~
527 XII(24) | enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit,
528 IV | slay him. Not yet had he escaped their plots, when his daughter9
529 VI | hurries away, of necessity escapes from you quickly; for you
530 III | suffer anyone to seize their estates, and they rush to stones
531 XVII(35) | the huge land force was estimated by counting the number of
532 XIV | which is boundless, which is eternal, which we share with our
533 XIX | their proper changes—and ether matters, in turn, full of
534 XIII(29) | delectatio nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia quaedam consecuta
535 IV | beyond the Rhine and the Euphrates and the Danube, in Rome
536 III | even lead in those who will eventually possess it. No one is to
537 X | be snatched away—it is an everlasting and unanxious possession.
538 | everywhere
539 XVI | intervening time is irksome; exactly as they do when a gladiatorial
540 XVII | the joys by which they are exalted and lifted above mankind
541 XVI | indulgence of divinity as an example to our own weakness? Can
542 XIV | nature with the Stoics, exceed it with the Cynics. Since
543 XII | enfeebled are they by the excessive lassitude of a pampered
544 VII | was worthy to be taken in exchange for his time. And so that
545 VII | sickness for the purpose of exciting the greed of the legacy-hunters?
546 I | the greatest of physicians exclaim that "life is short, art
547 VI | the cradle, and to have exclaimed that he was the only person
548 XIV | discourteous to deceive than to exclude. How many, still half asleep
549 XVI | sponsors, and to present the excused indulgence of divinity as
550 XIII | at other times they were exhibited in chains, and that javelin-throwers
551 XVI | they do when a gladiatorial exhibition\b is been announced, or
552 I(3) | maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam vitam dedisset; quorum si
553 VII | has not lived long—he has existed long. For what if you should
554 II | For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely
555 IX | greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon the
556 XVI | men? They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night
557 I | that led Aristotle, 3 while expostulating with Nature, to enter an
558 III | never could they adequately express their wonder at this dense
559 VI | the happiest of men, have expressed their loathing for every
560 III | face ever wore its natural expression, when your mind was ever
561 XIII(29) | turbae, delectatio nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia
562 V(12) | Not extant. ~
563 XIII | times it was customary to extend after the acquisition of
564 XIII | last of the Roman's who extended the pomerium, 31 which in
565 XII | elegant, and to such an extent do their evils follow them
566 XX | tomb; some who have come to extreme old age, while they adjusted
567 XIII(29) | recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum dies fuit,
568 XIX | ground and turn your mind's eye upon these things! Now while
569 XII | imagine that the mimes26 fabricate many things to make a mock
570 XII(24) | noster eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit, otiosum esse quam
571 IV | sacred oath, oft alarmed his failing years—and there was Paulus,
572 XV | What happiness, what a fair old age awaits him who has
573 XIV | thousand times! ~ But we may fairly say that they alone are
574 XIII | tell these things in good faith, though they pledge themselves
575 XIII(29) | occasion are recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus elephantorum
576 XIII | and was the first of the family of the Valerii to bear the
577 XX | view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed,
578 XII(26) | the popular mimes, or low farces, that were often censured
579 VII | great crowd that stretches farther than he can be heard, yet
580 III | that you have reached the farthest limit of human life, you
581 VII | man who had prayed for the fasces, 17 when he attains them,
582 XIV | all those men, glorious fashioners of holy thoughts, were born
583 IX | slow though time flies so fast? The poet speaks to you
584 XIII(27) | made of tablets of wood fastened together. ~
585 XII | the reputation of being fastidious and elegant, and to such
586 I(1) | usually identified with the father of a certain Pompeius Paulinus,
587 VII | laying snares, how much to fearing them, how much to paying
588 XII | same age and colour? Who feeds all the newest athletes?
589 XIV | allows us to enter into fellowship with every age, why should
590 VI | and to make his influence felt in the law-courts, so powerfully,
591 XII | disreputable and that will one day fester. Even the leisure of some
592 II | dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever
593 XVII(38) | he was ploughing his own fields. ~
594 VII | who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left
595 VII | throughout the whole forum, and fills all the place with a great
596 VII | them time to breathe. ~ Finally, everybody agrees that no
597 IX | beguiles the traveller, and he finds that he has reached the
598 XII | are always snapping their fingers as they beat time to some
599 XII | leisure25 who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes,
600 X | more brook delay than the firmament or the stars, whose ever
601 I | animals that they drag out five or ten lifetimes, 4 but
602 VIII | indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on the object
603 XII | shearing a real man! How they flare up if any of their mane
604 XV | without insult, praise without flattery, and after whose likeness
605 IX | Unless you seize the day, it flees." Even though you seize
606 XIV | turn from this paltry and fleeting span of time and surrender
607 XVIII | and who ever hampers the fleetness of such high-born creatures
608 IX | unconcerned and slow though time flies so fast? The poet speaks
609 XVII | some in battle, some in flight, and within a short time
610 II | those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered
611 IX | rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.
612 X | always in motion, it ever flows and hurries on; it ceases
613 V | V. Marcus Cicero, long flung among men like Catiline
614 IX | about this very day that is flying. Is there, then, any doubt
615 XIII | great number. It was once a foible confined to the Greeks to
616 XII | crushed in their own crowd of followers, or scornfully in someone
617 XVI | find life long. In their folly they are harassed by shifting
618 XI | out that they have been fools, because they have not really
619 XII | side and that toward the forehead? How angry they get if the
620 IX | those who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves very
621 IV | prayed for has led me to forestall some of its delight by the
622 XVI | XVI. But those who forget the past, neglect the present,
623 IX | making ready to live! They form their purposes with a view
624 XIII | the ancients a structure formed by joining together several
625 IV(8) | ceditque oneri Fortuna suo. ~
626 XVI | the madness of poets in fostering human frailties by the tales
627 I(4) | i.e., of man. Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach):~ ’
628 XVI | poets in fostering human frailties by the tales in which they
629 III | forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of
630 II | crowd about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the
631 XIX | under orders in case of the freest things in the world—loving
632 XV | will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your
633 V | as he is tossed to and fro along with the state and
634 I(3) | esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis artibus
635 XIII(29) | extremus elephantorum dies fuit, in quo admiratio magna
636 XIV | no rest, when they have fully indulged their madness,
637 XX | works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals.
638 I(3) | potuisset esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis
639 VII | after setting great value on gaining the chance to give them,
640 XVIII | corn to your charge; you gave hope of something greater
641 I(4) | Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~
642 XIII(29) | quandam illi beluae cum genere humana societatem." ~
643 I | been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment
644 X | of to-day, but one of the genuine and old-fashioned kind,
645 IX(19) | Virgil, Georgics, iii. 66 sq. ~
646 I(4) | κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν γηράντω· ἔλαφος δέ τε τετρακόρωνος. ~
647 I | an end just when they are getting ready to live. Nor is it
648 XX | dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres
649 IV | consolation with which he would gladden his labours—that he would
650 XVI | exactly as they do when a gladiatorial exhibition\b is been announced,
651 VIII | swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong
652 XII | those whom you see either gloriously crushed in their own crowd
653 IX | Whither do you look? At what goal do you aim? All things that
654 XII(23) | captured or confiscated goods were put up for sale. ~
655 XVII | canvass for others. Have we got rid of the troubles of a
656 VI | the evil measures of the Gracchi, seeing no way out for his
657 XIII | called Messala after the gradual corruption of the name in
658 I(1) | official who superintended the grain supply of Rome, and was,
659 XIX | oversea poured into the granaries, unhurt either by the dishonesty
660 IV(11) | characterization of Julia and his two grandchildren in Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "
661 XIII | same sort? For though you grant that they tell these things
662 I | this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily
663 VI(13) | proposed a corn law and the granting of citizenship to the Italians. ~
664 XVII | vast plains and could not grasp its number but simply its
665 X | brief that it cannot be grasped, and even this is filched
666 III(7) | 100 he should "come to his grave in a full age, like as a
667 XVII(34) | Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C. ~
668 X | treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered,
669 III | sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements
670 XIII | a foible confined to the Greeks to inquire into what number
671 XIV | carried around their venal greeting to houses that are very
672 XII | being stripped of whatever grew out the night before? while
673 VII | lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has
674 XVIII | Gaius Caesar died—still grieving most deeply (if the dead
675 VI | sudden wound received in his groin, some doubting whether his
676 XVII | causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly as they are born. But of
677 IV | themselves, others would grow in their place; just as
678 VII | another, for, guarding it most grudgingly, he found nothing that was
679 III | public duties." And what guarantee, pray, have you that your
680 XV | there will be no need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit;
681 VIII | may be; but that must be guarded more carefully which will
682 I | it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our
683 XIV | are not content to be good guardians of their own lifetime only.
684 XVIII(41)| populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!" (Suetonius, Calig. 30),
685 VIII | most devotedly they have a habit of saying that they are
686 XII | pampering to unlearn the habits of human life—when he had
687 X(21) | fate of the Danaids, who in Hades forever poured water into
688 VII | long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not
689 XIV | avoid passing out through a hall that is crowded with clients,
690 XII | doors, or whom the praetor's hammer23 keeps busy in seeking
691 XVIII | thoroughbred horses, and who ever hampers the fleetness of such high-born
692 II | an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others,
693 XVII | undertaking; victorious over Hannibal, victorious over Antiochus,
694 II | and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the
695 VI | though others deemed them the happiest of men, have expressed their
696 IV | of nations, thought most happily of that future day on which
697 XV | that you can desire. What happiness, what a fair old age awaits
698 XVI | In their folly they are harassed by shifting emotions which
699 XVIII | is indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the happy life,
700 XX | they judge old age to be a hardship on no other score than because
701 XVI | they spend in the arms of a harlot or in wine! It is this also
702 XV | has consecrated cannot be harmed; no age will destroy them,
703 XX | pleasure for a man to die in harness? Yet very many have the
704 XVII | him busy. Does Quintius38 hasten to get to the end of his
705 VIII | have been engrossed, life hastens by; meanwhile death will
706 XVI | are not long to them, but hateful; yet, on the other hand,
707 XIX | in the world—loving and hating. If these wish to know how
708 XVIII | it is difficult to avoid hatred; but nevertheless believe
709 VII | whether busied with unjust hatreds or with unjust wars, these
710 X | to divide my subject into heads with their separate proofs,
711 XII | are engaged in composing, hearing, and learning songs, while
712 XIX | that it does not become heated and spoiled by collecting
713 II | deep sea which continue to heave even after the storm is
714 XIX | is that upholds all the heaviest matter in the centre of
715 III | already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if
716 XX | from his long delayed45 heir. I cannot pass over an instance
717 VII | wearied with burying her heirs? 16 Of how many that man
718 XVIII(43)| who laid a bridge over the Hellespont. ~
719 XI | and that they will live henceforth in leisure if only they
720 I | is it merely the common herd and the unthinking crowd
721 XII | lads? Who sorts out the herds of his pack-mules into pairs
722 | herself
723 I(4) | i.e., of man. Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach):~ ’
724 XI | come, the wise man will not hesitate to go to meet death with
725 XVIII | hampers the fleetness of such high-born creatures with a heavy pack?
726 XVII | chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable
727 II | men from the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate, 6
728 IV | that the most powerful and highly placed men let drop remarks
729 IX | hereafter. The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy,
730 I(2) | The famous aphorism of Hippocrates of Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ
731 VIII | doles, and for these they hire out their labour or service
732 XVIII | than all those you have hitherto performed so energetically,
733 XVII(35) | times a space capable of holding 10,000 men was filled (Herodotus,
734 X | out through the chinks and holes of the mind. Present time
735 XIV | glorious fashioners of holy thoughts, were born for
736 XIV | of these will be "not at home," no one of these will fail
737 XII | call forth from their own homes to bump them against someone
738 I(3) | quorum id nihil interesset, hominibus, quorum maxime interfuisset,
739 I(3) | perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~
740 XVIII | accounts of the whole world as honestly as you would a stranger'
741 XVIII | a service that is indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the
742 XVIII | loads than thoroughbred horses, and who ever hampers the
743 XIX | Now while the blood is hot, we must enter with brisk
744 VII | pleasure is there that any hour can now bring? They are
745 XX | he were dead. The whole house bemoaned the leisure of
746 XX | mourned by the assembled household as if he were dead. The
747 XV | sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects;
748 XIV | their venal greeting to houses that are very far apart—
749 XIII(29) | quandam illi beluae cum genere humana societatem." ~
750 XII | head, who are overheard humming a tune when they have been
751 I(3) | vitam diuturnam, quorum id nihil interesset, hominibus,
752 IV(8) | The idea is that greatness sinks
753 I(1) | Paulina, and is usually identified with the father of a certain
754 XII | in leisure, but in busy idleness. 24 Would you say that that
755 XVIII | while the patient is kept in ignorance; knowledge of their disease
756 XX | courting the applause of an ignorant circle, he is pleading for
757 II | II. Why do we complain of Nature?
758 XIII | Ulysses had, whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written
759 X | their thoughts backward to ill-spent hours, and those whose vices
760 XIII(29) | opinio eiusmodi, esse quandam illi beluae cum genere humana
761 XI | only they escape from this illness; then at last they reflect
762 XII | he is doing. After this imagine that the mimes26 fabricate
763 XVIII | lack of provisions; his imitation of a mad and foreign and
764 III | mortals and all the desires of immortals. You will hear many men
765 I(1) | was, therefore, a man of importance. He was, believably, a near
766 VI | neither hold it back, nor impose delay upon the swiftest
767 XIII(29) | curses upon Pompey. Cicero's impressions of the occasion are recorded
768 XX | without pleasure, without any improvement of the mind. No one keeps
769 XVIII | you to slothful or idle inaction, or to drown all your native
770 IX | whatever length your greed inclines, do you stretch before yourself
771 XI | it, so to speak, yields income. And so, however small the
772 VIII | to live! So great is the inconsistency of their feelings. But if
773 IV | be devoid of dignity nor inconsistent with his former glory, I
774 II | fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged
775 VIII | blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because it does not
776 XV | succeeding age will but increase the reverence for them,
777 I | entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply
778 XII(26) | often censured for their indecencies. ~
779 I | with Nature, to enter an indictment most unbecoming to a wise
780 II | show the most senseless indignation—they complain of the insolence
781 XX | crawled up through a thousand indignities to the crowning dignity,
782 IV | determined the fortune of individuals and of nations, thought
783 XII | the meanderings of some indolent tune, who are always snapping
784 XIII | inquire into this—who first induced the Romans to go on board
785 XIV | rest, when they have fully indulged their madness, when they
786 XVI | and to present the excused indulgence of divinity as an example
787 VIII | from whom they ask it most indulgent. Both of them fix their
788 XVIII | tested worth and painstaking industry. But plodding oxen are much
789 IX | worded to cast censure upon infinite delay, in that he says,
790 XVII | of a court. Has he become infirm in managing the property
791 XI | time. But when at last some infirmity has reminded them of their
792 XVI | night. For what is it but to inflame our vices to inscribe the
793 VI | accused, and to make his influence felt in the law-courts,
794 XV | to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but
795 XX(45) | i.e., long kept out of his inheritance. ~
796 II | possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion
797 XVI | to inflame our vices to inscribe the name of the gods as
798 XX | they have but toiled for an inscription on a tomb; some who have
799 XVII | shed copious tears because inside of a hundred years not a
800 IX | bards cries out, and, as if inspired with divine utterance, sings
801 X | I say that they must be instructed, not merely wept over. ~
802 XV | he may hear truth without insult, praise without flattery,
803 VII(15) | some editors to doubt the integrity of the passage. ~
804 III | and sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point
805 III | days have passed as you had intended, when you were ever at your
806 I(3) | diuturnam, quorum id nihil interesset, hominibus, quorum maxime
807 XIII | will permit someone to be interested also in this—the fact that
808 I(3) | hominibus, quorum maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam vitam dedisset;
809 XVI | occupy them, and all the intervening time is irksome; exactly
810 XIV | Theophrastus, as their most intimate friends every day. No one
811 IV(10) | to death by reason of his intrigue with the elder Julia. ~
812 XVII(34) | Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C. ~
813 XII | pass over more than they invent, and such a multitude of
814 I | the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered
815 XVI | Nor because they sometimes invoke death, have you any reason
816 IV(8) | 88 sq.:~ Sidunt ipso pondere magna~
817 XVIII(41)| Calig. 30), cited in De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The logic of
818 XVI | the intervening time is irksome; exactly as they do when
819 IV(9) | banished by Augustus to the island of Pandataria. ~
820 XII | what style the wild boar issues from the hands of the cook,
821 XIII | after the acquisition of Italian but never of provincial,
822 VI(13) | granting of citizenship to the Italians. ~
823 VI | huge crowd drawn from all Italy proposed new laws and the
824 IV(10) | and Cleopatra; in 2 B.C. Iullus Antonius, younger son of
825 IV | IV. You will see that the most
826 IX | IX. Can anything be sillier
827 XIII | exhibited in chains, and that javelin-throwers were sent by King Bocchus
828 XIII | should learn them and be jealous of an act that was nowise
829 III(7) | cometh in in his season" (Job v. 26); but he is still
830 XIII | ancients a structure formed by joining together several boards
831 XVII | he would be set beside Jove39; but the discord of civilians
832 III | useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the
833 IV | Nevertheless, since the joyful reality is still far distant,
834 XVI | which they represent that Jupiter under the enticement of
835 VI | commend to the favour of a jury those who were accused,
836 XVIII | reason, nor is appeased by justice, nor is bent by any entreaty.
837 XVIII | corn-market. Recall that keen mind of yours, which is
838 II(5) | lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔτη τόσα, ζήσας
839 XIII | notable kind of spectacle to kill human beings after a new
840 II | Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to
841 XIII | leaders28 of old for the kindness of his heart, thought it
842 XVII | last?" This feeling has led kings to weep over the power they
843 VIII | these same people clasp the knees of physicians if they fall
844 XVIII | any feeling) because he knew that the Roman people were
845 I(4) | τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν γηράντω·
846 XVII | for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity
847 III | too, the time that has lain idle and unused; you will
848 XVII | is old, his ambition will lake delight in stubborn exile. 40
849 I(4) | Εννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη~ ἀνδρῶν
850 IV(11) | The language is reminiscent of Augustus'
851 XV | there is nothing that the lapse of time does not tear down
852 XII | are they by the excessive lassitude of a pampered mind that
853 IV | against his colleagues, and lastly against his relatives, he
854 XX | desire for their labour lasts longer than their ability;
855 V | consulship of his, which he had lauded without end, though not
856 XII | let in drive out from the law-court, those whom you see either
857 VI | his influence felt in the law-courts, so powerfully, indeed,
858 VI | from all Italy proposed new laws and the evil measures of
859 XII(22) | and caught the engrossed lawyer still at his task. ~
860 VII | to accounts, how much to laying snares, how much to fearing
861 XIX | your soul; where Nature lays us to rest When we are freed
862 III | nay, they themselves even lead in those who will eventually
863 XIII | in a mimic battle? He, a leader of the state and one who,
864 XIII | was conspicuous among the leaders28 of old for the kindness
865 XVII | the place of the old, hope leads to new hope, ambition to
866 IV | need to fear a woman in league with an Antony.10 When be
867 XX | Shameful is he whose breath leaves him in the midst of a trial
868 XI | of life, and not merely leaving it. They cry out that they
869 X | who was none of your lecture-room philosophers of to-day,
870 XVIII | to have knowledge of the ledger of one's own life than of
871 VI | favourable verdict. To what lengths was not such premature ambition
872 II(6) | his presence and advice lent support in court. ~
873 IV | swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were
874 XIII | things pass into oblivion lest hereafter some all-powerful
875 X | unresting movement never lets them abide in the same track.
876 XVII | higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover,
877 V | undiminished and stable liberty, being free and his own
878 XIV | good guardians of their own lifetime only. They annex ever age
879 I | they drag out five or ten lifetimes, 4 but that a much shorter
880 II | permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment
881 XIV | night's debauch, scarcely lifting their lips in the midst
882 XV | flattery, and after whose likeness he may fashion himself. ~
883 VII | deal out the rest as she likes; his life has already found
884 IV | ulcers11 together with the limbs themselves, others would
885 XV | alone is freed from the limitations of the human race; all ages
886 I | owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a
887 XIV | to pass beyond the narrow limits of human weakness, there
888 V | what I am doing here? I am lingering in my Tusculan villa half
889 VII | them?" That advocate is lionized throughout the whole forum,
890 XIII | first to exhibit loosed lions in the Circus, though at
891 II | sometimes condescend to listen to your words, he permits
892 XVIII | A hungry people neither listens to reason, nor is appeased
893 XIII | spend their time on useless literary problems, of whom even among
894 XVII(40) | politics, he died in exile at Liternum. ~
895 XX | he is pleading for some litigant who is the veriest stranger;
896 XII | thither in a sedan-chair and a litter, and are punctual at the
897 VI | round. Heaven knows! such lives as yours, though they should
898 VI | VI. When Livius Drusus, 13 a bold and energetic
899 XIII(31) | within and (according to Livy, i. 44) without the city
900 XVIII | suited to carrying heavy loads than thoroughbred horses,
901 VI | men, have expressed their loathing for every act of their years,
902 XII | while either disarranged locks are restored to their place
903 XVIII(41)| De Ira, iii. 19. 2. The logic of the whole passage suffers
904 II | them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does
905 IV | rupture somewhere. And so he longed for leisure, in the hope
906 I(3) | si aetas potuisset esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus
907 VII | it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.
908 XIII | was the first to exhibit loosed lions in the Circus, though
909 VII(15) | sketchily presented. The looseness of the structure has led
910 XII | if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of it lies out
911 III | not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in
912 XV | parents who fell to our lot, that they have been given
913 XVI | enticement of the pleasures of a lover doubled the length of the
914 XIX | freest things in the world—loving and hating. If these wish
915 XII(26) | in the popular mimes, or low farces, that were often
916 II | of all these men from the lowest to the highest—this man
917 XIII | also in this—the fact that Lucius Sulla was the first to exhibit
918 XVIII | concealed the great evil that lurked in the vitals of the state—
919 II | and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I
920 II(5) | epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται
921 IV | land and sea. ~ Through Macedonia, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, and
922 XIII(30) | i.e., Magnus. ~
923 X | against the passions with main force, not with artifice,
924 XVII | than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need
925 I | I. The majority of mortals, Paulinus, 1
926 IX | better; they spend life in making ready to live! They form
927 I(2) | βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή. ~
928 XVIII | may be sure. For certain maladies must be treated while the
929 VII(18) | At this time the management of the public games was
930 XVII | Has he become infirm in managing the property of others at
931 XII | flare up if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of
932 XII | Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a few makes costly, and
933 VII | wars, these all sin in more manly fashion. But those who are
934 VII | nevertheless go astray in a seemly manner; though you should cite
935 V | V. Marcus Cicero, long flung among
936 IV(10) | had been pitted against Mark Antony and Cleopatra; in
937 II | will see that these are the marks that distinguish them: A
938 XX | that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications
939 VII | seen that mere boys have mastered so thoroughly that they
940 XIII | between creatures so ill matched, when he was shedding so
941 I(3) | interesset, hominibus, quorum maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam
942 XII | straightforward, into the meanderings of some indolent tune, who
943 XII(25) | For the technical meaning of otiosi, "the leisured,"
944 | Meantime
945 VI | proposed new laws and the evil measures of the Gracchi, seeing no
946 IX | conversation or reading or deep meditation on some subject beguiles
947 XII | summoned to serious, often even melancholy, matters? These have not
948 II(5) | Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν ἔτη τόσα, ζήσας δὲ ἔτη ἑπτά. ~
949 XIII | these same matters—the man I mentioned related that Metellus, when
950 VII | of them we have seen that mere boys have mastered so thoroughly
951 VI | years, will shrink into the merest span; your vices will swallow
952 XIII | himself, and was later called Messala after the gradual corruption
953 XIII | I mentioned related that Metellus, when he triumphed after
954 XVIII(42)| Three and a half miles long, reaching from Baiae
955 XIII | criminals against them in a mimic battle? He, a leader of
956 X | day at a time, and each by minutes; but all the days of past
957 XII | occupied with the comb and the mirror? And what of those who are
958 XIII(29) | nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia quaedam consecuta est atque
959 VII | or their other glorious miseries: "I have no chance to live."
960 III | which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most
961 VI | great personal and public misfortune. And so it was too late
962 X | beyond the reach of all human mishaps, and removed from the dominion
963 XVIII | of a mad and foreign and misproud king43 was very nearly at
964 XIII | they write, still whose mistakes will be made fewer by such
965 XII | fabricate many things to make a mock of luxury! In very truth,
966 XIX | and spoiled by collecting moisture and tallies in weight and
967 XVIII(42)| reaching from Baiae to the mole of Puteoli (Suetonius, Calig.
968 X | under some allurement of momentary pleasure, do not have the
969 III | willing to distribute his money, yet among how many does
970 III | time was taken up with a moneylender, how much with a mistress,
971 XIII | be crushed by animals of monstrous bulk! Better would it be
972 IX | stretch before yourself months and years in long array,
973 XV | into immortality. Honours, monuments, all that ambition has commanded
974 I(3) | 69: "Theophrastus autem moriens accusasse naturam dicitur,
975 XIV(33) | salutatio was held in the early morning. ~
976 X | none; for it is always in motion, it ever flows and hurries
977 XIII | profitable to know this than that Mount Aventine, according to him,
978 XX | out on his bed and to be mourned by the assembled household
979 XIII(29) | that the people were so moved by pity that they rose in
980 XII | they invent, and such a multitude of unbelievable vices has
981 IV | Rome itself the swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius,
982 XIV | mind, to pass beyond the narrow limits of human weakness,
983 IV | fortune of individuals and of nations, thought most happily of
984 XVIII | inaction, or to drown all your native energy in slumbers and the
985 III | your face ever wore its natural expression, when your mind
986 VI | can prolong, although it naturally hurries away, of necessity
987 I(3) | autem moriens accusasse naturam dicitur, quod cervis et
988 XIII | was the first who won a naval battle, Curius Dentatus
989 I(1) | importance. He was, believably, a near relative of Seneca's wife,
990 XVIII | misproud king43 was very nearly at the cost of the city'
991 IV(11) | Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "nec (solebat) aliter eos appellare
992 VII | life by the public, have necessarily had too little of it. ~
993 VII | has had. None of it lay neglected and idle; none of it was
994 I(1) | high public posts under Nero (Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiii.
995 XII | colour? Who feeds all the newest athletes? Tell me, would
996 XV | need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit; the more persons
997 XII(22) | watch-dogs that were let in at nightfall, and caught the engrossed
998 VIII | at hand, for which, willy nilly, you must find leisure. ~
999 XX | diligence, who, after his ninetieth year, having received release
1000 X | the passions must be, not nipped, but crushed. Yet, in order
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