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

tegunt corpora Non ? avium plumae in usum vestis<br />

conseruntur ? Non hodieque magna Scytharum pars<br />

tergis vulpium induitur ac murum, quae tactu mollia<br />

17 et inpenetrabilia ventis sunt? "Opus<br />

est tamen<br />

calorem solis aestivi umbra crassiore propellere."<br />

Quid ergo Non ? vetustas multa dedit l loca, quae<br />

vel iniuria temporis vel alio quolibet<br />

casu excavata<br />

in specum recesserunt ? Quid ergo Non ? quilibet 2<br />

virgeam cratem texuerunt manu et vili obliverunt<br />

3<br />

luto, deinde stipula aliisque silvestribus operuere<br />

fastigium, et pluviis per devexa labentibus hiemem<br />

transiere 4 securi ? Quid<br />

?<br />

ergo Non in defosso<br />

latent Syrticae gentes quibusque propter nimios solis<br />

ardores nullum tegimeiitum satis repellendis caloribus<br />

solidum est nisi ipsa arens humus ?<br />

18 Non fuit tarn inimica natura, ut, cum omnibus<br />

aliis animalibus facilem actum vitae daret, homo<br />

solus non posset sine tot artibus vivere. Nihil horum<br />

ab ilia nobis imperatum est, nihil aegre quaerendum,<br />

ut possit vita produci. Ad parata nati surnus ;<br />

nos<br />

omiiia nobis difficilia facilium fastidio fecimus. Tecta<br />

tegimentaque et fomenta corporum et cibi et quae<br />

nunc ingens negotium facta sunt, obvia erant et<br />

1<br />

dedit Madvig abdidit MSS. Buecheler suspects the<br />

;<br />

whole clause to be corrupt. H. Miiller suggests alxlita dedit.<br />

MSS. B. G. Gemoll believes<br />

a<br />

later quilibet ; quaelibet<br />

that the words quid ergo<br />

. . . securi should be placed at the<br />

head <strong>of</strong> 17.<br />

3 stipula Hense et al. ; despicnla B ; de stipula cod. Harl.<br />

followed by Haase.<br />

4 transiere later MSS. ;<br />

transire B.<br />

a Of. Ovid, Met. i. 121 f. :<br />

406<br />

Domus antra fuerunt<br />

Et deusi frutices et vinctae cortice virgae.

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