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THE EPISTLES OF SENECA permanendi conservandique se insita voluntas atque aspernatio dissolutionis, quia videtur multa nobis bona eripere et nos ex hac^ cui adsuevimus, rerum copia educere. Ilia quoque res morti nos alienat, quod liaec iam novimus, ilia, ad quae transituri sumus, nescimuSj qualia shit, et horremus ignota. Naturalis praeterea tenebrarura metus est, in quas 16 adductura mors creditur. Itaque etiam si indifferens mors est, non tamen ea est, quae facile neglegi possit. Magna exercitatione durandus est animus, ut conspectum eius accessumque patiatur. Mors contemn! debet magis quain solet. Multa enim de ilia credidimus. Multorum ingeniis certatum est ad augendam eius infamiam. Descriptus est career infernus et in qua perpetua nocte oppressa regio, Ingens ianitor Orci Ossa super recubans antro semesa cruento, Aeternum latrans exsangues terreat umbras. Etiam cum persuaseris istas fabulas esse nee quicquam defunctis superesse, quod timeant, subit alius metus. Aeque enim timent, ne apud inferos sint, quam ne nusquam. 17 His adversaiitibus, quae nobis offundit longa persuasio, fortiter pati mortem quidni gloriosum sit et 250 a See Vergil, Aeneid, vi. 400 f. and viii. 296 f.
EPISTLE LXXXII. for there are implanted in us love of self, a desire for existence and self-preservation, and also an abhorrence of dissolution, because death seems to rob us of many Offoods and to withdraw us from the abundance to which we have become accustomed. And there is another element which estranges us from death : we are already familiar with the present, but are ignorant of the future into which we shall transfer ourselves, and we shrink from the unknown. Moreover, it is natural to fear the world of shades, whither death is supposed to lead. Therefore, although death is something indifferent, it is nevertheless not a thing which we can easily ignore. The soul must be hardened by long practice, so that it may learn to endure the sight and the approach of death. Death ought to be despised more than it is wont to be despised. For we believe too many of the stories about death. Many thinkers have striven hard to increase its ill repute they have portrayed ; the prison in the world below and the land overwhelmed by everlasting night, where Within his blood-stained cave Hell's warder huge Doth sprawl his ug'ly length on half-crunched bones, And terrifies the disembodied ghosts With never-ceasing bark. a Even if you can win your point and prove that these are mere stories and that nothing is left for the dead to fear, another fear steals upon you. For the fear of going to the underworld is equalled by the fear of going nowhere. In the face of these notions, which long-standing opinion has dinned in our ears, how can brave endurance of death be anything else than glorious, and fit to rank among the greatest accomplishments of the VOL. ir i 251
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LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY SENECA v EPI
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876 SENECA sENECAf LUCIUS ANNAEUSt
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SENECA IN TEN VOLUMES V AD LUCILIUM
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II LETTERS PACK
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THE EPISTLES OF SENECA
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THE EPISTLES OF SENECA LXVI. ON VAR
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EPISTLE LXVI. me to breed certain m
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EPISTLE LXVI. be avoided, establish
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is nothing else than a portion of t
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EPISTLE LXVI. in a human body. a If
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EPISTLE LXVI. which it deals ; if t
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EPISTLE LXVI. " Are you trying to m
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EPISTLE LXVI. he will entrust himse
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and toil. EPISTLE LXVI. Or, if you
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EPISTLE LXV1. It is because nothing
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EPISTLE LXVI. reason that both thes
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EPISTLE LXVI. succession of actions
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EPISTLE LXVI. but a good itself nev
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EPISTLE LXVI. even though death has
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EPISTLE LXV1. absence of pain ? The
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EPISTLE LXVI. thus, must be welcome
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EPISTLES LXVI., LXVII. those other
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EPISTLE LXVII. the middle of summer
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EPISTLE LXVI1. Certain of our schoo
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EPISTLE JLXVII. honour, I have pray
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EPISTLE LXVII. desirable which come
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EPISTLES LXVIL, LXVII1. to the stak
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EPISTLE LXVIII. you, that you keep
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EPISTLE LXVIII. another drains and
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EPISTLE LXVII1. falling back upon t
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EPISTLES LXVIII., LXIX. however, th
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EPISTLE LXIX. used to crave so pass
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EPISTLE LXX. LXX. ON THE PROPER TIM
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EPISTLE LXX. are aware, one should
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EPISTLE LXX. are times, nevertheles
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EPISTLE LXX. you find in doing anot
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EPISTLE LXX. speedily as possible o
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EPISTLE LXX. take thought of his ow
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EPISTLE LXX. the breath from his bo
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He EPISTLE LXX. departure, nothing
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EPISTLES LXX., LXXI. Reason, too, a
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EPISTLE LXXI. The archer must know
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EPISTLE LXXI snce virtue has made t
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EPISTLE LXXI he had returned victor
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EPISTLE LXXI. nient ? For what is f
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EPISTLE LXXI. by destructions of va
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EPISTLE LXXI. inflicting them, and
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EPISTLE LXXI. Itself be made more s
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EPISTLE LXXI. actions are not essen
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' EPISTLE LXXI. latter is situated
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EPISTLE LXXI. that which I recommen
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EPISTLE LXXI. so much progress that
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EPISTLE LXXII. LXXII. ON BUSINESS A
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EPISTLE LXXII. for no amount of tim
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EPISTLE LXXII. between a healthy ma
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EPISTLE LXXII. opens his jaws in th
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EPISTLE LXX1II. LXXIII. ON PHILOSOP
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EPISTLE LXXIII. he may retire to no
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EPISTLE LXXIII. and to the god who
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EPISTLE LXX1II. for him to enjoy ri
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EPISTLES LXXIII., LXXIV. them to ot
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EPISTLE LXXIV. to consist in the be
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EPISTLE LXXIV. the region round abo
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EPISTLE LXXIV. them, and, just beca
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EPISTLE LXXIV. upright men often su
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EPISTLE LXXIV. fortunate than God,
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EPISTLE LXXIV. " " preferred things
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EPISTLE LXXIV. should fortify ourse
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EPISTLE LXXIV. governed country, an
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EPISTLE LXXIV. sufficient ; for the
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EPISTLE LXXIV. spread, governing ki
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EPISTLE LXXIV. colour," his counten
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EPISTLES LXXIV., LXXV. unless he ha
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EPISTLE LXXV. I prefer, however, th
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EPISTLE LXXV. has during a plague.
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EPISTLE LXXV. but not yet the passi
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EPISTLE LXXV. of many of the vices
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EPISTLES LXXV., LXXVI. no greater p
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EPISTLE LXXV1. the races, and allow
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EPISTLE LXXVI. to make. Why do you
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EPISTLE LXXVI. swift ; so is the ho
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EPISTLE LXXVI. will disapprove of h
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EPISTLE LXXVI. willed. It is this t
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EPISTLE LXXVI. else good except tha
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EPISTLE LXXVI. variance with reason
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EPISTLE LXXVI. lead a happy life wh
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EPISTLE LXXVI. of some last noble e
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EPISTLE LXXVI. which he is clothed.
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1 EPISTLES LXXVL, LXXVII. others li
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EPISTLE LXXVII. were progressing ab
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this feeling is. 173 EPISTLE LXXVII
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EPISTLE LXXVII. This little anecdot
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EPISTLE LXXVII. multitudes who will
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EPISTLE LXXV1I. cloyed with it. You
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EPISTLES LXXVIL, LXXVIII. honourabl
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. had the power to d
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. and cavity of whic
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. whether because th
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. desire are wearied
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. ills, and tells li
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. you relieved from
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EPISTLE LXXVI1I. and that drives th
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EPISTLE LXXVIII. a man is, the more
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Page 227 and 228: EPISTLE LXXX. man smiles more often
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EPISTLE LXXXV. vices of less degree
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EPISTLE LXXXV. serve this liberty.
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EPISTLE LXXXV. squalls, inasmuch as
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EPISTLE LXXXV. holds the ship in ir
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EPISTLE LXXXV. thing which engages
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EPISTLES LXXXV., LXXXVI. feared ; b
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EPISTLE LXXXVI. to the laws and wit
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EPISTLE LXXXVI. I spigots. have so
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EPISTLE LXXXVI. as aedile, or Fabiu
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EPISTLE LXXXVI. spick - and - span
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EPISTLE LXXXVI. In spring sow beans
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EPISTLES LXXXVI., LXXXVII. of young
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. loss, whenever it
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. have uttered an op
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. Marcus Cato the Ce
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. good man ; therefo
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. soul ; they do not
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. inactivity as a go
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EPISTLE LXXXV1I. must perforce admi
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. an act of sacrileg
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EPISTLE LXXXYII. but riches give us
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EPISTLE LXXXVI1. things are not " g
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EPISTLE LXXXVII. You " have/' says
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EPISTLES LXXXVIL, LXXXVIII. were be
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. subject. The scho
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. irreconcilable wi
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EPISTLE LXXXV1I1. rather what purit
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. father? Can you e
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. intervals of the
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. ' pleasures. For
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EPISTLE LXXXVI1I. Posidonius a divi
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. aid us and yet ar
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. favour arrives at
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' EPISTLE LXXXVIII. such character
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. begin along with
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. of intemperance.
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EPISTLE LXXXVIII. Apion, the schola
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EPISTLES LXXXVIIL, LXXXIX. exists o
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. namely, the parts o
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. In the first place,
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i.r,., logic. 383 EPISTLE LXXXIX. p
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. a different subject
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. left to him ; for h
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. left to him ; for h
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. object arises in ea
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. kind, as much as yo
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EPISTLE LXXXIX. this custom continu
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EPISTLES LXXXIX., XC. provided that
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EPISTLE XC. together in close-unite
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EPISTLE XC. They kept their hands u
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EPISTLE XC. cliff or by the trunk o
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EPISTLE XC. sloping they contrived
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EPISTLE XC. broke it, upbraiding hi
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EPISTLE XC. trees ? Are not the fea
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EPISTLE XC. all, and obtainable for
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EPISTLE XC. upright warp keeps the
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EPISTLE XC. whatever grain slips ou
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EPISTLE XC. to his meaner assistant
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EPISTLE XC. control ; for he whom l
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] EPISTLE XC. marks whereby truth i
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EPISTLE XC. But Posidoiiius again r
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EPISTLE XC. need of happiness, and
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she was the parent, of all ; EPISTL
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EPISTLE XC. unused, and the hand, u
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EPISTLE XC. these days, however, ou
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EPISTLES XC., XCI. and even in the
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EPISTLE XCI. it ? When weapons are
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EPISTLE XC1. War arises in the mids
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EPISTLE XCI. and should fortify our
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EPISTLE XCI. not very large in exte
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EPISTLE XCI. mortality, and in the
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EPISTLE XC1 not cry out at any of t
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EPISTLE XCI. comprehended by a madm
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EPISTLES XCI., XCII. Meanwhile it i
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EPISTLE XC1I. less strong than he i
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EPISTLE XCI1. a spark have in the m
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EPISTLE XCII. which harmonize but i
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EPISTLE XCII. walk as I should, or
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EPISTLE XCII. serious, that he is c
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EPISTLE XCII. he is free from cloud
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EPISTLE XCII. ills do not make a ma
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EPISTLE XCII. he has lived longer a
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EPISTLE XCII. fortune the wise man
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EPISTLE XCII. But He in whose body
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EPISTLE XCII, by the boundaries of
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EPISTLE XCII. by the executioner's
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LXXVI. 20. LXXVI1. 17. APPENDIX Q a
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the chalice to our own 1 lips,' Ixx
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INDEX Leonidas at Thermopylae), Ixx
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INDEX 16 ; late-won renown of, P. C
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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY VOLUMES
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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY OVID : T
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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY ARISTOTL
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