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THE EPISTLES OF <strong>SENECA</strong><br />

lingua non constat, quid est, quare ilium existimes<br />

in parte sobrium esse, in parte ebrium ? VALE.<br />

LXXX1V.<br />

<strong>SENECA</strong> LVCILIO svo SALVTEM<br />

1 Itinera ista, quae segnitiam mihi excutiunt, et<br />

valitudini meae prodesse iudico et studiis. Quare<br />

valitudinem adiuvent, vides : cum pigrum me l et<br />

neglegentem corporis litterarum amor faciat, aliena<br />

opera exerceor ; studio quare prosint, indicabo : a<br />

lectionibus nihil 2 recessi. Sunt autem, ut existimo,<br />

necessariae, primum ne sim me uno contentus ;<br />

deinde ut, cum ab aliis quaesita cognovero, turn et de<br />

inventis iudicem et cogitem de invemendis. Alit<br />

lectio ingenium et studio fatigatum, non sine studio<br />

2 tamen, reficit. Nee scribere tantum nee tantum<br />

legere debemus altera res contristabit vires et<br />

;<br />

exliauriet, de stilo dico,<br />

altera solvet ac diluet.<br />

Invicem hoc et illo commeandum est et alterum<br />

altero temperandum, ut quicquid<br />

lectione collectum<br />

est, stilus redigat in corpus.<br />

3 Apes, ut aiunt, debemus imitari, quae vagantur et<br />

flores ad mel faciendum idoneos carpunt, deinde<br />

quicquid attulere, disponuiit ac per favos digerunt et,<br />

ut Vergilius noster ait,<br />

1<br />

me later MSS. ; viae VPb.<br />

2 nihil added by Buecheler, omitted by VPb.<br />

a A considerable part <strong>of</strong> this letter is found in the preface<br />

to the Saturnalia <strong>of</strong> Macrobius, without any acknowledgment<br />

<strong>of</strong> indebtedness.<br />

276

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