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1001 IV | his daughter9 and all the noble youths who were bound to
1002 XIII | whom more just, whom more noble-minded? My friend Fabianus used
1003 XV | Households there are of noblest intellects; choose the one
1004 VIII | course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you
1005 XII(24) | satius est enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul et facetissime
1006 XIII | his heart, thought it a notable kind of spectacle to kill
1007 IX | unexpectedly, they did not notice that it was drawing nearer
1008 VIII | that is lost without being noticed they find is bearable. Yet
1009 IV(9) | The notorious Julia, who was banished
1010 XIII | jealous of an act that was nowise human. 29 O, what blindness
1011 VI | been a trouble-maker and a nuisance in the forum. It is a question
1012 XIII(29) | atque turbae, delectatio nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia
1013 IV | adultery as by a sacred oath, oft alarmed his failing
1014 VIII | them fix their eyes on the object of the request for time,
1015 XIII | that these things pass into oblivion lest hereafter some all-powerful
1016 XX | more difficult for men to obtain leisure from themselves
1017 X | those whose vices become obvious if they review the past,
1018 XIII(29) | Cicero's impressions of the occasion are recorded in Ad Fam.
1019 XII | these are at leisure who are occupied with the comb and the mirror?
1020 X | proofs, many arguments will occur to me by which I could prove
1021 XX | pass over an instance which occurs to me. Sextus46 Turannius
1022 XIII | whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written first, whether
1023 X | possession. The present offers only one day at a time,
1024 I(1) | praefectus annonae, the official who superintended the grain
1025 IV | adultery as by a sacred oath, oft alarmed his failing years—
1026 X | but one of the genuine and old-fashioned kind, used to say that we
1027 III | someone from the company of older men and say: "I see that
1028 XII | as if it were unlawful to omit them, who are reminded by
1029 I(3) | omnibus perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur." ~
1030 I(3) | longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis artibus omni doctrina
1031 IV(8) | magna~ ceditque oneri Fortuna suo. ~
1032 XIII | not better not to apply oneself to any studies than to become
1033 XIII(29) | quaedam consecuta est atque opinio eiusmodi, esse quandam illi
1034 II | with all the seeming of an oracle: "The part of life we really
1035 XX | Gaius Caesar's own act, ordered himself to be laid out on
1036 XIV | the years that have gone ore them are an addition to
1037 XIII(31) | of extending it belonged originally to the king who had added
1038 XII | neither eat nor drink without ostentation. And I would not count these
1039 XX | their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth,
1040 XII(25) | the technical meaning of otiosi, "the leisured," see Seneca'
1041 XII(24) | simul et facetissime dixit, otiosum esse quam nihil agere." ~
1042 XX | the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light
1043 | ourselves
1044 XIII | Aventine, according to him, is outside the pomerium for one of
1045 IV | just as in a body that was overburdened with blood, there was always
1046 XIV | find peace with Epicurus, overcome human nature with the Stoics,
1047 XII | have in their head, who are overheard humming a tune when they
1048 XIX | concerned in having corn from oversea poured into the granaries,
1049 II | down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to
1050 I | into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited,
1051 XVIII | painstaking industry. But plodding oxen are much more suited to
1052 IV | foreign wars. While he was pacifying the Alpine regions, and
1053 XVIII | high-born creatures with a heavy pack? Reflect, besides, how much
1054 XII | sorts out the herds of his pack-mules into pairs of the same age
1055 XIII | some people bestow useless pains upon these same matters—
1056 XVIII | men of tested worth and painstaking industry. But plodding oxen
1057 XII | herds of his pack-mules into pairs of the same age and colour?
1058 II | forth blood! How many are pale from constant pleasures!
1059 XIV | should we not turn from this paltry and fleeting span of time
1060 XII | provided that you can call it pampering to unlearn the habits of
1061 IV(9) | Augustus to the island of Pandataria. ~
1062 II | besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted
1063 XV | our power to choose the parents who fell to our lot, that
1064 X | censured, each for his own particular fault, I say that they must
1065 X | power to roam into all the parts of its life; but the minds
1066 X | for it to settle upon, it passes out through the chinks and
1067 III | mistress, how much with a patron, how much with a client,
1068 I(1) | of Seneca's wife, Pompeia Paulina, and is usually identified
1069 IV | failing years—and there was Paulus, and a second time the need
1070 XVI | Can the nights which they pay for so dearly fail to seem
1071 VII | fearing them, how much to paying court, how much to being
1072 XX | in the act of receiving payments on account, and draws a
1073 XIV | doubt32 with Carneades, find peace with Epicurus, overcome
1074 XVIII | to entrust many thousand pecks of corn to your charge;
1075 VIII | set very great store by pensions and doles, and for these
1076 XII | leisure, who has also a perception of his leisure. But this
1077 I(3) | futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum
1078 X(21) | water into a vessel with a perforated bottom. ~
1079 XII | smooth-faced boys hurry to perform their duties, with what
1080 XIV | Those who rush about in the performance of social duties, who give
1081 XV | of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none
1082 X | Life is divided into three periods—that which has been, that
1083 XVII | Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one;
1084 XI | committed to Fortune, none of it perishes from neglect, none is subtracted
1085 II | listen to your words, he permits you to appear at his side;
1086 XVII | others at a salary? He is perplexed by caring for his own wealth.
1087 XVII | time come. When the King of Persia, 34 in all the insolence
1088 VI | hardihood would result in great personal and public misfortune. And
1089 XV | niggardly spirit; the more persons you share it with, the greater
1090 XVII | on stable causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly as they
1091 XV | admire. The life of the philosopher, therefore, has wide range,
1092 X | none of your lecture-room philosophers of to-day, but one of the
1093 XIII | enough! Are they torn to pieces? That is not enough! Let
1094 IV | descend from their high pinnacle; for, though nothing from
1095 X | attack, not by inflicting pinpricks; that sophistry is not serviceable,
1096 IV | they concealed. Forced to pit arms first against his countrymen,
1097 IV(10) | 31 B.C. Augustus had been pitted against Mark Antony and
1098 XIII | elephants in the Circus, pitting criminals against them in
1099 XVII(35) | On the plain of Doriscus in Thrace the
1100 XVII | spread his army over the vast plains and could not grasp its
1101 IV | and subduing the enemies planted in the midst of a peaceful
1102 XII | they set out their silver plate, how diligently they tie
1103 VII | thoroughly that they could even play the master. It takes the
1104 XVIII | his bridges of boats42 and playing with the resources of the
1105 XX | an ignorant circle, he is pleading for some litigant who is
1106 VII | throngs of clients, or their pleadings in court, or their other
1107 X | they should have, it is not pleasant to recall something they
1108 XI | a falsehood, and are as pleased to deceive themselves as
1109 XIII | was the place to which the plebeians had seceded, or because
1110 XIII | good faith, though they pledge themselves for the truth
1111 XVIII | painstaking industry. But plodding oxen are much more suited
1112 IV | yet had he escaped their plots, when his daughter9 and
1113 XVII | called back to it from the plough. Scipio will go against
1114 XVII(38) | announced to him while he was ploughing his own fields. ~
1115 VI | seeing no way out for his policy, which he could neither
1116 XVII(40) | Disgusted with politics, he died in exile at Liternum. ~
1117 I(1) | relative of Seneca's wife, Pompeia Paulina, and is usually
1118 I(1) | the father of a certain Pompeius Paulinus, who held high
1119 IV(8) | Sidunt ipso pondere magna~ ceditque
1120 VIII | or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started
1121 XVIII(41)| wish of Caligula: "utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!" (
1122 XII | the birds are carved into portions all according to rule, how
1123 III | those who will eventually possess it. No one is to be found
1124 V | a prisoner—he who always possesses an undiminished and stable
1125 X | everlasting and unanxious possession. The present offers only
1126 VIII | punishment, to spend all their possessions in order to live! So great
1127 VIII | years set before him as is possible in the case of the years
1128 V | all others. For what can possibly be above him who is above
1129 III | forgetfulness of mortality to postpone wholesome plans to the fiftieth
1130 I(1) | Paulinus, who held high public posts under Nero (Pliny, Nat.
1131 XII | order that he may know the postures of his own body, needs someone
1132 I(3) | dedisset; quorum si aetas potuisset esse longinquior, futurum
1133 X | matter how much water you pour into a vessel, if there
1134 VI | felt in the law-courts, so powerfully, indeed, that it is very
1135 II | straining to display their powers draw forth blood! How many
1136 I(1) | about A.D. 49), Paulinus was praefectus annonae, the official who
1137 XX(46) | Annals, i. 7) gives the praenomen as Gaius. ~
1138 XII | else's doors, or whom the praetor's hammer23 keeps busy in
1139 VII(18) | games was committed to the praetors. ~
1140 XV | hear truth without insult, praise without flattery, and after
1141 IV | his labours. This was the prayer of one who was able to answer
1142 VI | might have known that such precocious hardihood would result in
1143 IV | leisure, acclaim it, and prefer it to all their blessings.
1144 VI | what lengths was not such premature ambition destined to go?
1145 XIV | for us; for us they have prepared a way of life. By other
1146 II(6) | defense, but one who by his presence and advice lent support
1147 VII(15) | that have been sketchily presented. The looseness of the structure
1148 XVII | civilians will vex their preserver, and, when as a young man
1149 XVII | to be a judge? He becomes president of a court. Has he become
1150 III | limit of human life, you are pressing hard upon your hundredth
1151 XII | really did not know, or if he pretended not to know this. They really
1152 XIV | long waiting, will rush by, pretending to be in a hurry! How many
1153 XII | tie up the tunics of their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly
1154 VII(16) | i.e., she has become the prey of legacy-hunters. ~
1155 XX | things are bought at the price of life. They will waste
1156 XIV | and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and
1157 I | of it. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a
1158 XII | follow them into all the privacies of life that they can neither
1159 XVIII | hand, you have sustained in private life, how many, on the other,
1160 XVIII(41)| Probably an allusion to the mad wish
1161 XIII | time on useless literary problems, of whom even among the
1162 V | half a prisoner." He then proceeds to other statements, in
1163 XIII | different sky, when he was proclaiming war between creatures so
1164 III | they show themselves most prodigal. And so I should like to
1165 XIII | provincial, territory. Is it more profitable to know this than that Mount
1166 XV | This is the only way of prolonging mortality—nay, of turning
1167 IV | senate, in which he had promised that his rest would not
1168 IV | better by deeds than by promises. Nevertheless, since the
1169 IX | from them the present by promising something hereafter. The
1170 I | long for him who orders it properly. ~
1171 II(5) | A prose rendering of an unknown
1172 XVII | rid of the troubles of a prosecutor? We find those of a judge.
1173 X | has ambitiously coveted, proudly scorned, recklessly conquered,
1174 X | occur to me by which I could prove that busy men find life
1175 XII | of these pampered people—provided that you can call it pampering
1176 XIII | of Italian but never of provincial, territory. Is it more profitable
1177 IX | unarmed, for they have made no provision for it; they have stumbled
1178 XIII | secret soul, and, if you publish them, make you seem more
1179 XII | sedan-chair and a litter, and are punctual at the hours for their rides
1180 III | with your wife, how much in punishing your slaves, how much in
1181 VIII | threatened with capital punishment, to spend all their possessions
1182 XVII | mankind are by no means pure? All the greatest blessings
1183 IX | to live! They form their purposes with a view to the distant
1184 XV | courting of none will tax your purse. From them you will take
1185 XVII | or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.
1186 XVIII(42)| from Baiae to the mole of Puteoli (Suetonius, Calig. 19). ~
1187 XX | other score than because it puts them aside. The law does
1188 XIV | shall wish to have Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus, and all the
1189 XIII(29) | quin etiam misericordia quaedam consecuta est atque opinio
1190 XIII(29) | atque opinio eiusmodi, esse quandam illi beluae cum genere humana
1191 VII | that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle
1192 VI | nuisance in the forum. It is a question whether he died by his own
1193 XII | in his sedan-chair, said questioningly: "Am I now seated?" Do you
1194 XIX | Do you retire to these quieter, safer, greater things!
1195 XIII(29) | delectatio nulla exstitit; quin etiam misericordia quaedam
1196 XVII | consulship keeps him busy. Does Quintius38 hasten to get to the end
1197 XIII(29) | elephantorum dies fuit, in quo admiratio magna vulgi atque
1198 I(3) | accusasse naturam dicitur, quod cervis et cornicibus vitam
1199 II(5) | unknown poet. Cf. the epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19:
1200 XV | limitations of the human race; all ages serve him as if
1201 VII | succession of winds that raged from different quarters,
1202 XV | to immortality, and will raise you to a height from which
1203 XV | philosopher, therefore, has wide range, and he is not confined
1204 XVIII | enough food left for at any rate seven or eight days while
1205 X | set apart, put beyond the reach of all human mishaps, and
1206 XVIII(42)| Three and a half miles long, reaching from Baiae to the mole of
1207 IX | Even as conversation or reading or deep meditation on some
1208 VIII | they do give it, without realizing it; but the result of their
1209 XV | commanded by decrees or reared in works of stone, quickly
1210 | recently
1211 X | coveted, proudly scorned, recklessly conquered, treacherously
1212 XII | Heaven knows! I cannot reckon among their unoccupied hours,
1213 XX | that they may have one year reckoned by their name. 44 Life has
1214 III | recall your life and make a reckoning. Consider how much of your
1215 XV | by? This he embraces by recollection. Is time present? This he
1216 XIII(29) | impressions of the occasion are recorded in Ad Fam. vii. 1. 3: "extremus
1217 XV | will destroy them, no age reduce them; the following and
1218 XX | keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes;
1219 VII | very few, and those the refuse. have been left for you.
1220 IV | was pacifying the Alpine regions, and subduing the enemies
1221 X | something they must view with regret. They are, therefore, unwilling
1222 XIX | not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another,
1223 VII | nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it
1224 XVII | and at the very moment of rejoicing the anxious thought comes
1225 XIII | matters—the man I mentioned related that Metellus, when he triumphed
1226 I(1) | was, believably, a near relative of Seneca's wife, Pompeia
1227 IV | and lastly against his relatives, he shed blood on land and
1228 IV | thought of which he found relief for his labours. This was
1229 XVI | pleasure to another and cannot remain fixed in one desire. Their
1230 VIII | would be who saw only a few remaining, how sparing of them would
1231 IV | highly placed men let drop remarks in which they long for leisure,
1232 VIII | make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent
1233 IV(11) | The language is reminiscent of Augustus's own characterization
1234 III | reserve for yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart
1235 XI | those whose life is passed remote from all business, why should
1236 VIII | suffering loss; therefore, the removal of something that is lost
1237 XV | time does not tear down and remove. But the works which philosophy
1238 X | of all human mishaps, and removed from the dominion of Fortune,
1239 XIII | not been favourable when Remus took his auspices on that
1240 II(5) | A prose rendering of an unknown poet. Cf.
1241 VII | their encumbrances, having renounced riches, business, and pleasures,
1242 VI | superfluous and that could be replaced. ~
1243 XIII | and one who, according to report, was conspicuous among the
1244 XVI | the tales in which they represent that Jupiter under the enticement
1245 XII | such means they seek the reputation of being fastidious and
1246 VIII | eyes on the object of the request for time, neither of them
1247 III | Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant
1248 V | never will the wise man resort to so lowly a term, never
1249 XVIII | boats42 and playing with the resources of the empire, we were threatened
1250 V | unable as he was to be restful in prosperity or patient
1251 XVI | engrossments fail them, they are restless because they are left with
1252 V | son was still trying to restore his shattered arms in Spain! "
1253 XIII | Whose passions will they restrain? Whom will they make more
1254 VII | his friends, but of his retinue? Check off, I say, and review
1255 XVIII | midst of your release and retirement. You, I know, manage the
1256 XV | age will but increase the reverence for them, since envy works
1257 VIII | started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it
1258 X | not have the courage to revert to those hours. No one willingly
1259 IV | all his conversation ever reverted to this subject—his hope
1260 XVIII | and famine and the general revolution that follows famine. What
1261 IV | its bounds even beyond the Rhine and the Euphrates and the
1262 XII | punctual at the hours for their rides as if it were unlawful to
1263 XII | all fall into its proper ringlets! Who of these would not
1264 XVII | Carthaginians before he is ripe for so great an undertaking;
1265 II | they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes
1266 VII | great man and one who has risen far above human weaknesses
1267 XVII | unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to
1268 XVII | had scorned honours that rivalled those of the gods, at length,
1269 XX | law. Meantime, while they rob and are being robbed, while
1270 XX | a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see
1271 VII(17) | The rods that were the symbol of
1272 XVIII(41)| Caligula: "utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!" (
1273 XIII(29) | moved by pity that they rose in a body and called down
1274 VI | fall back into their usual round. Heaven knows! such lives
1275 XIII | inquire into what number of rowers Ulysses had, whether the
1276 XIV | sleep or self-indulgence or rudeness will keep them out! How
1277 XV | of stone, quickly sink to ruin; there is nothing that the
1278 XII | portions all according to rule, how carefully unhappy little
1279 IV | blood, there was always a rupture somewhere. And so he longed
1280 III | your slaves, how much in rushing about the city on social
1281 XII | greater part of each day upon rusty bits of copper? Who sits
1282 I(4) | Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach):~ ’Εννέα τοι ζώει
1283 XIX | retire to these quieter, safer, greater things! Think you
1284 II | everyone is wasted for the sake of another. Ask about the
1285 XVII | property of others at a salary? He is perplexed by caring
1286 XII(23) | confiscated goods were put up for sale. ~
1287 XIV(33) | The salutatio was held in the early morning. ~
1288 VII | addition as the man who is satisfied and filled takes the food
1289 XII(24) | Pliny, Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim, ut Atilius noster
1290 I | and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at
1291 IX | divine utterance, sings the saving strain: ~The fairest day
1292 XVI | on the other hand, how scanty seem the nights which they
1293 XIV | from last night's debauch, scarcely lifting their lips in the
1294 XIII | seem more of a bore than a scholar. But now this vain passion
1295 XVII | back to it from the plough. Scipio will go against the Carthaginians
1296 XX | be a hardship on no other score than because it puts them
1297 XII | own crowd of followers, or scornfully in someone else's, those
1298 VII | stain that is dishonourable. Search into the hours of all these
1299 II | led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some
1300 XII | questioningly: "Am I now seated?" Do you think that this
1301 XIII | which the plebeians had seceded, or because the birds had
1302 IV | there was Paulus, and a second time the need to fear a
1303 XII | s hammer23 keeps busy in seeking gain that is disreputable
1304 V | along with the state and seeks to keep it from destruction,
1305 | seeming
1306 VII | nevertheless go astray in a seemly manner; though you should
1307 VII | everywhere; some of them we have seen that mere boys have mastered
1308 XII | he is alive, whether he sees, whether he is at leisure?
1309 X | treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered,
1310 XIV | who either from sleep or self-indulgence or rudeness will keep them
1311 II | to return to their true selves; if ever they chance to
1312 IV | letter addressed to the senate, in which he had promised
1313 XX | year, it does not call a senator after his sixtieth; it is
1314 II | certain men show the most senseless indignation—they complain
1315 XIII | that javelin-throwers were sent by King Bocchus to despatch
1316 II | defends him, that one gives sentence; no one asserts his claim
1317 IV(10) | son of the triumvir, was sentenced to death by reason of his
1318 XII | they have been summoned to serious, often even melancholy,
1319 X | pinpricks; that sophistry is not serviceable, for the passions must be,
1320 II | are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance
1321 XX(47) | funerals took place by night (Servius, Aeneid, xi. 143). ~
1322 VIII | service or effort. But no one sets a value on time; all use
1323 VII | gives games, 18 and, after setting great value on gaining the
1324 X | there is nothing for it to settle upon, it passes out through
1325 XVIII | food left for at any rate seven or eight days while he was
1326 | several
1327 XX | instance which occurs to me. Sextus46 Turannius was an old man
1328 XII | wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we labour with vices that
1329 XX | midst of their great and shameless endeavours. Shameful is
1330 VII | how many that man who is shamming sickness for the purpose
1331 XIX | what mode of life, what shape God has; what fate awaits
1332 IV | without should assail or shatter, Fortune of its very self
1333 V | still trying to restore his shattered arms in Spain! "Do you ask,"
1334 XII | careless, just as if he were shearing a real man! How they flare
1335 XX | youth, have had it fail from sheer weakness in the midst of
1336 XIII | the Romans to go on board ship. It was Claudius, and this
1337 III(7) | in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his
1338 IV | sweat those blessings that shone throughout all lands drew
1339 VI | of a thousand years, will shrink into the merest span; your
1340 I(3) | exiguam vitam dedisset; quorum si aetas potuisset esse longinquior,
1341 XII | him a different term—he is sick, nay, he is dead; that man
1342 VII | that man who is shamming sickness for the purpose of exciting
1343 IV(8) | Agamemnon, 88 sq.:~ Sidunt ipso pondere magna~
1344 XVIII | befall men even during a siege—the lack of provisions;
1345 XII(23) | stuck in the ground as the sign of a public auction where
1346 VIII | remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will
1347 IX | IX. Can anything be sillier than the point of view of
1348 XII | anxiously they set out their silver plate, how diligently they
1349 II(5) | by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Σίμιλις ἐνταῦθα κεῖται βιοὺς μὲν
1350 XII | the voice, whose best and simplest movement Nature designed
1351 XVII | not grasp its number but simply its measure, 35 he shed
1352 XII(24) | Atilius noster eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit, otiosum
1353 VII | with unjust wars, these all sin in more manly fashion. But
1354 IX | inspired with divine utterance, sings the saving strain: ~The
1355 XV | works of stone, quickly sink to ruin; there is nothing
1356 IV(8) | The idea is that greatness sinks beneath its own weight.
1357 XII | rusty bits of copper? Who sits in a public wrestling-place (
1358 VII(15) | occupati that have been sketchily presented. The looseness
1359 XII | their duties, with what skill the birds are carved into
1360 XVI | amusement, they want to skip over the days that lie between.
1361 XIII | beasts born under a different sky, when he was proclaiming
1362 XIII | the first to exhibit the slaughter of eighteen elephants in
1363 XIII | the dagger of the vilest slave, and then at last discovered
1364 XII | the tunics of their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch
1365 III | how much in punishing your slaves, how much in rushing about
1366 IV | others were being whetted to slay him. Not yet had he escaped
1367 IX | same pace whether waking or sleeping; those who are engrossed
1368 III | arms if there is even the slightest dispute about the limit
1369 VI | world, but you allow it to slip away as if it were something
1370 II | another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by
1371 XVIII | And I do not summon you to slothful or idle inaction, or to
1372 IX | long array, unconcerned and slow though time flies so fast?
1373 XVI | complain that the hours pass slowly until the time set for dinner
1374 XIV | many, still half asleep and sluggish from last night's debauch,
1375 XIV | wretches, who break their own slumber33 in order to wait on that
1376 XVIII | all your native energy in slumbers and the pleasures that are
1377 XX | on account, and draws a smile from his long delayed45
1378 XII | speed at a given signal smooth-faced boys hurry to perform their
1379 II | flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how
1380 XII | indolent tune, who are always snapping their fingers as they beat
1381 VII | accounts, how much to laying snares, how much to fearing them,
1382 X | neither be troubled nor be snatched away—it is an everlasting
1383 IX | each day as it comes, it snatches from them the present by
1384 XIII(29) | beluae cum genere humana societatem." ~
1385 III | desire, in the allurements of society, how little of yourself
1386 XIV | roam. We may argue with Socrates, we may doubt32 with Carneades,
1387 IV(11) | Suetonius (Aug. 65. 5): "nec (solebat) aliter eos appellare quam
1388 XII | the night before? while a solemn debate is held over each
1389 XII | their couch, in the midst of solitude, although they have withdrawn
1390 | somewhere
1391 XII | as they beat time to some song they have in their head,
1392 XII | composing, hearing, and learning songs, while they twist the voice,
1393 XV | chance; yet we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households
1394 X | inflicting pinpricks; that sophistry is not serviceable, for
1395 V | restore his shattered arms in Spain! "Do you ask," he said, "
1396 VIII | only a few remaining, how sparing of them would they be! And
1397 XI | the whole of it, so to speak, yields income. And so,
1398 II | abides. Think you that I am speaking of the wretches whose evils
1399 IX | flies so fast? The poet speaks to you about the day, and
1400 XII(23) | Literally, "spear," which was stuck in the
1401 XIII | thought it a notable kind of spectacle to kill human beings after
1402 XIII | the name in the popular speech. Perhaps you will permit
1403 I | granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all
1404 XII | a few makes costly, and spends the greater part of each
1405 XIII | the different men who have spent the whole of their life
1406 XV | guard in a mean or niggardly spirit; the more persons you share
1407 I | complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are
1408 XII | little lads wipe up the spittle of drunkards. By such means
1409 XIX | does not become heated and spoiled by collecting moisture and
1410 XVI | name of the gods as their sponsors, and to present the excused
1411 XIII | took his auspices on that spot—and, in turn, countless
1412 XVII | insolence of his pride, spread his army over the vast plains
1413 III | by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from
1414 VII | belly and into lust bear a stain that is dishonourable. Search
1415 XIII | various other matters of this stamp, which, if you keep them
1416 XVII | his brother's, did he not stand in his own way, he would
1417 V | He then proceeds to other statements, in which he bewails his
1418 XVII(39) | He did not allow his statue to be placed in the Capitol. ~
1419 XI | to go to meet death with steady step. ~
1420 XIV | overcome human nature with the Stoics, exceed it with the Cynics.
1421 XV | decrees or reared in works of stone, quickly sink to ruin; there
1422 XIII | will be made fewer by such stories? Whose passions will they
1423 XVIII | the crowd, and, too much storm-tossed for the time you have lived,
1424 XVIII | have encountered, how many storms, on the one hand, you have
1425 XVII(36) | Herodotus, vii. 45, 46 tells the story. ~
1426 XII | movement Nature designed to be straightforward, into the meanderings of
1427 IX | lie in uncertainty; live straightway! See how the greatest of
1428 IX | utterance, sings the saving strain: ~The fairest day in hapless
1429 II | eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers
1430 VII | with a great crowd that stretches farther than he can be heard,
1431 XII | barber's while they are being stripped of whatever grew out the
1432 XVI | out the time. And so they strive for something else to occupy
1433 XI | how uselessly they have striven for things which they did
1434 XX | the midst of their first struggles, before they could climb
1435 XVII | ambition will lake delight in stubborn exile. 40 Reasons for anxiety
1436 XII(23) | Literally, "spear," which was stuck in the ground as the sign
1437 IX | provision for it; they have stumbled upon it suddenly and unexpectedly,
1438 XII | they watch to see in what style the wild boar issues from
1439 IV(11) | vomicas ac tria carcinomata sua" ("his trio of boils and
1440 IV | the Alpine regions, and subduing the enemies planted in the
1441 XVIII | how much worry you have in subjecting yourself to such a great
1442 XVIII | to cope with the greatest subjects, from a service that is
1443 X | unless all his acts have been submitted to the censorship of his
1444 XIX | purpose of discovering what substance, what pleasure, what mode
1445 XVIII | Caligula? By the greatest subterfuge they concealed the great
1446 XI | perishes from neglect, none is subtracted by wasteful giving, none
1447 XV | the following and each succeeding age will but increase the
1448 VII | that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is
1449 VI | hand; for he fell from a sudden wound received in his groin,
1450 IX | they have stumbled upon it suddenly and unexpectedly, they did
1451 VIII | know is whether they are suffering loss; therefore, the removal
1452 XI | of it, it is abundantly sufficient, and therefore, whenever
1453 I | and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow
1454 XVIII | plodding oxen are much more suited to carrying heavy loads
1455 XII | tune when they have been summoned to serious, often even melancholy,
1456 XIX | fire to the topmost part, summons the stars to their proper
1457 XIII | baking their bodies in the sun. They are not unoccupied
1458 IV(8) | ceditque oneri Fortuna suo. ~
1459 I(1) | annonae, the official who superintended the grain supply of Rome,
1460 II | of the insolence of their superiors, because they were too busy
1461 XVIII | good reason, you may be sure. For certain maladies must
1462 II | while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot
1463 XVII | his own consulship, the surety for his brother's, did he
1464 XIII | was the very reason he was surnamed Caudex, because among the
1465 IX | the first to flee? Old age surprises them while their minds are
1466 XIV | fleeting span of time and surrender ourselves with all our soul
1467 II | time. Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they
1468 XIX | the centre of this world, suspends the light on high, carries
1469 XVIII | on the one hand, you have sustained in private life, how many,
1470 VI | merest span; your vices will swallow up any amount of time. The
1471 IV | had discovered how much sweat those blessings that shone
1472 IV | of leisure. This was the sweet, even if vain, consolation
1473 VI | nor impose delay upon the swiftest thing in the world, but
1474 I | rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few
1475 XII | must bathe, when they must swim, when they must dine; so
1476 XVIII | had to face stones, the sword, fire—and a Caligula? By
1477 IV | Danube, in Rome itself the swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus,
1478 VII(17) | The rods that were the symbol of high office. ~
1479 XVII(37) | common soldier, is here synonymous with service in the army. ~
1480 IV | Macedonia, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, and Asia, and almost all
1481 XIII | caudex, whence also the Tables of the Law are called codices, 27
1482 XIII(27) | ancient codex was made of tablets of wood fastened together. ~
1483 XVI | fostering human frailties by the tales in which they represent
1484 XIX | collecting moisture and tallies in weight and measure, or
1485 I(3) | quorum maxime interfuisset, tam exiguam vitam dedisset;
1486 XX | light of torches and wax tapers,47 as though they had lived
1487 XII(22) | engrossed lawyer still at his task. ~
1488 II | by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man
1489 XIV(32) | The New Academy taught that certainty of knowledge
1490 XV | the courting of none will tax your purse. From them you
1491 I(4) | ἀνδρῶν γηράντω· ἔλαφος δέ τε τετρακόρωνος. ~
1492 XV | you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of
1493 X(20) | A much admired teacher of Seneca. ~
1494 VII | other arts there are many teachers everywhere; some of them
1495 V | not without reason! How tearful the words he uses in a letter12
1496 XVII | measure, 35 he shed copious tears because inside of a hundred
1497 I(2) | Cos: ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή. ~
1498 XIII | XIII. It would be tedious to mention all the different
1499 XIII | few days I heard someone telling who was the first Roman
1500 XVII(36) | Herodotus, vii. 45, 46 tells the story. ~
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