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On the Shortness of Life
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  • I
  1: It is clear from chapters 18 and 19 that, when this essay was written (in or about A.D. 49), Paul[...]
  2: The famous aphorism of Hippocrates of Cos: o bíos bracys, e dè técne makré.
  3: An error for Theophrastus, as shown by Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iii. 69: "Theophrastus autem moriens a[...]
  4: i.e., of man. Cf. Hesiod, Frag. 183 (Rzach): ’Ennéa toi zÓei geneàs lakéryza korÓne [...]


  • II
  5: A prose rendering of an unknown poet. Cf. the epitaph quoted by Cassius Dio, lxix. 19: Símilis ent[...]
  6: Not one who undertook the actual defense, but one who by his presence and advice lent support in [...]


  • III
  7: Literally, "unripe." At 100 he should "come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn c[...]


  • IV
  8: The idea is that greatness sinks beneath its own weight. Cf. Seneca, Agamemnon, 88 sq.: [...]
  9: The notorious Julia, who was banished by Augustus to the island of Pandataria.
  10: In 31 B.C. Augustus had been pitted against Mark Antony and Cleopatra; in 2 B.C. Iullus Antonius, [...]
  11: The language is reminiscent of Augustus's own characterization of Julia and his two grandchildren[...]


  • V
  12: Not extant.


  • VI
  13: As tribune in 91 B.C. he proposed a corn law and the granting of citizenship to the Italians.


  • VII
  14: Throughout the essay occupati, "the engrossed," is a technical term designating those who are so [...]
  15: i.e., the various types of occupati that have been sketchily presented. The looseness of the stru[...]
  16: i.e., she has become the prey of legacy-hunters.
  17: The rods that were the symbol of high office.
  18: At this time the management of the public games was committed to the praetors.


  • IX
  19: Virgil, Georgics, iii. 66 sq.


  • X
  20: A much admired teacher of Seneca.
  21: An allusion to the fate of the Danaids, who in Hades forever poured water into a vessel with a pe[...]


  • XII
  22: Apparently watch-dogs that were let in at nightfall, and caught the engrossed lawyer still at his[...]
  23: Literally, "spear," which was stuck in the ground as the sign of a public auction where captured [...]
  24: Cf. Pliny, Epistles, i. 9. 8: "satius est enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul et facetissi[...]
  25: For the technical meaning of otiosi, "the leisured," see Seneca's definition at the beginning of [...]
  26: Actors in the popular mimes, or low farces, that were often censured for their indecencies.


  • XIII
  27: The ancient codex was made of tablets of wood fastened together.
  28: Such, doubtless, as Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Crassus.
  29: Pliny (Nat. Hist. viii. 21) reports that the people were so moved by pity that they rose in a body[...]
  30: i.e., Magnus.
  31: A name applied to a consecrated space kept vacant within and (according to Livy, i. 44) without t[...]


  • XIV
  32: The New Academy taught that certainty of knowledge was unattainable.
  33: The salutatio was held in the early morning.


  • XVII
  34: Xerxes, who invaded Greece in 480 B.C.
  35: On the plain of Doriscus in Thrace the huge land force was estimated by counting the number of tim[...]
  36: Herodotus, vii. 45, 46 tells the story.
  37: Caliga, the boot of the common soldier, is here synonymous with service in the army.
  38: His first appointment was announced to him while he was ploughing his own fields.
  39: He did not allow his statue to be placed in the Capitol.
  40: Disgusted with politics, he died in exile at Liternum.


  • XVIII
  41: Probably an allusion to the mad wish of Caligula: "utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!"[...]
  42: Three and a half miles long, reaching from Baiae to the mole of Puteoli (Suetonius, Calig. 19). [...]
  43: Xerxes, who laid a bridge over the Hellespont.


  • XX
  44: The Roman year was dated by the names of the two annual consuls.
  45: i.e., long kept out of his inheritance.
  46: Tacitus (Annals, i. 7) gives the praenomen as Gaius.
  47: i.e., as if they were children, whose funerals took place by night (Servius, Aeneid, xi. 143). [...]


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