SENECA - College of Stoic Philosophers

THE EPISTLES OF SENECA
opera mortalitate damnata sunt, inter peritura
vivimus.
13 Haec ergo atque eiusmodi solacia admoveo Liberali
nostro incredibili quodam patriae suae amore flagranti,
quae fortasse consumpta est, ut in melius excitaretur.
Saepe maiori fortunae locum fecit iniuria. Multa
ceciderunt, ut altius surgerent. Timagenes felicitati
urbis inimicus aiebat Romae sibi inceiidia ob hoc
unum dolori esse, quod sciret meliora surrectura
14 quam arsissent. In hac quoque urbe veri simile est
certaturos o nines, ut maiora certioraque quam amisere
restituantur. 1 Sint utinam diuturna et melioribus
auspiciis in aevum longius condita ! Nam huic
coloniae ab origine sua centeiisimus annus est, aetas
ne homini quidem extrema. A Planco deducta in
hanc frequentiam 2 loci opportunitate convaluit, quot
tamen gravissimos casus intra spatium humanae
senectutis tulit. 3
15 Itaque fonnetur animus ad intellectum patientiamque
sortis suae et sciat 4 nihil inausum esse fortunae,
adversus imperia illam idem habere iuris quod
adversus imperantes, adversus urbes idem posse
quod adversus homines. Nihil horum indignandum
1
restituantur Buecheler, who thought
it the reading of
1
BA, which is more probably restituant, according to Hense.
2 in hanc frequentiam later MSS. ;
in hac frequentia BA.
3
tulit added by Buecheler.
4 sciat later MSS. ;
sciant BA.
" Probably the writer, and intimate friend of Augustus,
who began life in Rome as a captive from Egypt. Falling
into disfavour with the Emperor, he took refuge with the
malcontent Asinius Pollio at Tusculurn, and
died in the East. Cf. Seneca, De Ira, iii. 23.
subsequently
6 It was in 43 B.C. that Plancus led out the colonists who
were chiefly Roman citizens driven from Vienna. Seneca
would have been more accurate had he said "one hundred
and eighth (or seventh)." Buecheler and Schultess would
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