Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookis expenses, defraud his genius.[1836] 12 ... But for whom? One whom a single fever, one attack of indigestion, nay, a single draught of wine, could carry off....[1837] 13 If they commiserate themselves, take care you do not assign their case too high a place.[1838] 14 Now, in like manner ... we wish to captivate their mind ... just to the people and to authors....[1839] 15 ... you do not collect that multitude of your friends which you have entered on your list....[1840] 16 ... wherefore it is better for her to cherish this, than bestow all her regard on that.... 17 ... in the first place, all natural philosophers say, that man is made up of soul and body. 18 ... to have returned and retraced his steps[1841] 19 ... and that which is greatly to your fancy is excessively disagreeable to me.... 20 ... strive with the highest powers of your nature: whereas I, on the other hand ... that I may be different[1842] 21 ... whether he should hang himself, or fall on his sword, that he may not look upon the sky....[1843] 22 ... study the matter, and give your attention to my words, I beg. 23 ... in order that I may escape from that which I perceive it is the summit of your desires to attain to.[1844] 24 On the other hand, it is a disgrace not to know how to conquer in war the sturdy barbarian Hannibal.[1845] 25 ... but if they see this, they think that a wise man always aims at what is good.... 26 ... delighted with your pursuit, you write an ancient history to your favorites....[1846] 27 ... who I am, and with what husk I am now enveloped, I can not....[1847] 28 ... then to oppose to my mind a body worn out with pains. 29 ... nor before he had handled a man's veins and heart.... 30 Let us appear kind and courteous to our friends--[1848] 31 Why should not you too call me unlettered and uneducated?[1849] 32 ... call together the assembly, with hoarse sound and crooked horns.[1850] 33 They will of their own accord fight it out for you, and die, and will offer themselves voluntarily. 34 When I bring forth any verse from my heart--[1851] 35 He is not on that account exalted as the giver of life or of joy....[1852] 36 As each one of us has been brought forth into light from his mother's womb[1853] 37 ... if you wish to have your mind refreshed through your ears[1854] 38 ... they who drag on life for six months, vow the seventh to Orcus. 39 ... we are easily laughed at; we know that it is highly dangerous to be angry--[1855] 40 Part is blown asunder by the wind, part grows stiff with cold--[1856] 41 ... if he tastes nothing between two market days.[1857] 42 ... let it be glued with warm glue spread over it.... 43 ... wherefore I quit the straight line, and gladly discharge the office of rubbish--[1858] 44 ... if I had hit upon any obsolete or questionable word 45 ... your youth, tired and tested to the highest degree by me.[1859] 46 ... when I had invigorated my body with a double stadium on the exercise-ground, and with ball....[1860] 47 ... those who will take food from a clean table must needs wash. 48 Now obscurity is to these a strange and monstrous thing--[1861] 49 ... what you would think you should beware of and chiefly avoid.... 50 ... enter on that toil which will bring you both fame and profit-- 51 ... what he understood, I showed that not a few could: 52 ... how disgusting and poor a thing it is to live «with loathing for food».[1862] 53 ... for my part, I am not persuaded publicly to change mine. 54 ... then my tithes, which treat me so ill, and turn out so badly 55 ... we see that he who is ill in mind gives evidence of it in his body. 56 ... make the battle of Popilius resound[1863] 57 ... Sylvanus, the driver away of wolves ... and trees struck by lightning.[1864] 58 ... that you transport yourself from the fierce storms of life into quiet. 59 Moreover, it is a friend's duty to advise well, watch over, admonish-- 60 Since I found it out from great crowds of boon companions--[1865] 61 ... a faithless wife, a sluggish household, a dirty home--[1866] 62 ... nor is peace obtained ... because he dragged Cassandra from the statue[1867] 63 ... Eager to return home, we almost infringed our king's command[1868] 64 ... Let something, at all events, which I have attempted, turn out, some way.... 65 ... Thither our eyes of themselves entice us, and hope hurries our mind to the spot. 66 ... he thinks by clothes to ward off cold and shivering. 67 ... unless you write of monsters and snakes with wings and feathers.[1869] 68 ... for I grow contemptuous and am weary of Agamemnon-- 69 ... he is tormented with hunger, cold, dirt, unbathed filthiness, neglect. 70 ... a sieve, a colander, a lantern ... a thread for the web.[1870] 71 May the gods suggest better things, and avert madness from you 72 ... a dry, wretched, miserable stock he calls an elder-- 73 ... be more learned than the rest; abandon, or change to some other direction, those faults which have become sacred with you. 74 It were better to get gold from the fire or food out of the mud with our teeth. 75 Let him chop wood, perform his task-work, sweep the house, be beaten. 76 He alone warded off Vulcan's violence from the fleet.... 77 Therefore, they think all will escape sickness.... 78 I therefore dispose, for money, of that which costs me dearer. FOOTNOTES: [1831] _Producunt_, i. e., "instituunt," Nonius: vel "gignunt," Plaut., Rud., IV., iv., 129. Pers., vi., 18, "Geminos Horoscope varo producis genio." Juv., viii., 271, "Quam te Thersitæ similem producat Achilles." Plaut., As., III., i., 40. Ter., Ad., III., ii., 16. Juv., xiv., 228. This, and the 3d, 4th, and 5th Fragments refer to the miseries of married life. [1832] _Mutires_, "to grumble, mutter." Plaut., Amph., I., i., 228, "Etiam muttis? jam tacebo." [1833] The Tricorii were a people of Gallia Narbonensis, on the banks of the Druentia, now Durance, near Briançon, bordering on the Allobroges and Vocontii. Hannibal marched through their territory, after leaving the Arar. Cf. Plin., ii., 4. Liv., xxi., 31. _Versipellis._ Cf. Plaut., Amph., Prol., 123, "Ita versipellem se facit quando lubet." [1834] Van Heusde's interpretation is followed, which seems the most obvious one. Gerlach takes the contrary view, and says, these very words prove that Lucilius could not have been a scriptuarius or decumanus. Lucilius means, "he would not change his present condition and pursuits, even for a very lucrative post in Asia." [1835] _Depeculassere_ and _deargentassere_, are examples of the old form of a future infinitive ending in _assere_. Cf. Plaut., Amphit., I., i., 56, "Sese igitur summâ vi virisque eorum oppidum _expugnassere_." _Decalauticare_, "to deprive of one's hood," from calautica, "a covering for the head, used by women, and falling over the shoulders." It seems that Cicero charged Clod |