Dialogorum liber XII: Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione, texte Latin;

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27. etiamnunc ista, so far, these items of knowledge' i. e. the Ca pleast an excuse hicli, illio avail ali that solio v. etiamnunc, ver common in Sen. is sed by him illi many

the rarest allis them are a osten expresse by adhuc in Seneca. 28. circR-uersantur, lare nevertheles concerned vitii signat Services to the state, i. e. the victori es of Duilius an Curius. exempla, not instances but patierns.'29. profutura, lihelyrio improve ur characters. '3o quae etineat, able to interest us ecause the theme, though die is attractive ' the emphasis is On speciosa the res

g g. 1. O is object both o quaerentibus an remittamus: let u excuse also hos xvlio enquire . . . : his en Se of remis erei rare an instance, s. Diat ii i , 3 non uiuificatii iniuriam ne remisit quidem rute, the objec itinoverias is the penalty sor

co nomen Caudex fuit he was consul in 26 B.C. hoc ipsum refers to vhat recedes: cf. Pol b. 74 2 propter hoc ipsum. . plurium tabularum contextus: a ooden loch, pli into Severat ri ting-tablet connected by inges, was calle cautae orcodex; ence the nam e vas i ven to manu script in book-form,

distinguished rom the oli nolumen o papyrus and woodentiloclis of ther ind bore the sanae nam the runk of a reeis commoni calle caudex by lin the Elder. The esset herementioned vere rasts, which could ascend the hallo Tiberet Aulus Gellius X et 5 5 seem to have nown them a caudicae, O codicariae; ut en is confirme by Varro p. Nonium p. 35 Mantiqui plures Iabnias coniunctas codices dicebant, a quo in Tiberi

nauis codicarias assellam I S.

5. publicae tabulae, the abies of the Law': s. Diat iv 28, multa pietas, humanitas, liberalitas, iustitia, fides exigunt, quae

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omnia extra sublicas fabulas sunt l. e. many virtves are o laiddown in the written lawj. The fame term is osten used for the state archives hept in the Temple of Saturn cf. ac Ann. xiii 28, 3 buti reati es, decrees of the senate, an simila documents ere engravedon metal cf. Plin Nat Hist. XXXi 99 usus aeri adferre uitatem ntonimentorunt iam pridem tralatus St, tabulis aereis, in quibus stiblicae constitutiones luci tin ur: O that Sen. oes no here reserto them. 7. subuetiunt, froni Ostia o Rome the rews forme a corporation calle codicarii, as appear hom inscriptions.*5 sane, i Dyou like.' ad rem pertineat, he considere important.'9 Coruinus took Messana 263 B. C. G. I3 no . curare, a b intereste in the fact.'

Sulla Plin s t. Hist. viii 3 record that Sulla exhibite la hundred mane lion a Rome durin his praetorshi p. I . circo untii the Colosseum vas pene by Titus in o A. D. , wild east utere regulari balte in the Circus Caesar ad amoat in the Circus for his games in 6 B.C. to revent the animal sfrom realiing ut, a the elephantS, hoWn by Pompe nine ears earlier, ad done, illi injury to the PectatorS. stetit, exhibited ': the technical ord, regulari used illi

alioquin, at ther times': s. Diat i et, et heroe antea soranother mean ing, s. Pol b. 8 4 Hem. Ioa 5. i5. ad conssciendos eo z. to despatch them': the wor feems technical: cf. Suet. Dona. I fera Saepe in Albano secessu conscientem spectauere plerique s confector, Dial. V 3, 2. I7. Om9eium Pompey, he his theatre as pene in 55 B. C., exhibite elephant seto, 8, O a accordin to different accountsin. hicli ere balte in the Circus Cicero as ne of the spectators, but was not amused he writes to a friens Fam. vii 1 3ὶ extremus elephantorum dira fuit, in quo admiratio magna uol iatque turbae deIecratio nulla exstitit quin eriam misericordia quaedam consecuta est atque opinio eiusmodi esse quandam Vibemae cum genere humano societatem. Pli ny Nat. Hist. viii et ij say that the spectators ere so fili est,ith pit for the elephanis that the utiere against Pompe curses hicli,ere oon orae sulfilled.

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18. commissis ... noriis nominibus, criminals hein pitted againSt them.' Sen. seems' er here, a Pli ny l. l. says that Ahican avelin-throwers ere brought ove to figlit the elephanis. et o princeps ciuitatis: s. Dial vi et o os Pompey indubiratus populi Romani si inceps Cicero Post ei in Sen. denotes Pompe thus ithout nam in him it is no a format ille. antiquos se of that time P is, Pthinii, compared maint with his contemporaries, speciali Caesar an Crassus; ut perhaps Marius an Sulla a b included .eti bovitatis, liliadnes of earlyci the sense furvives in the French bonte. It is Pompey's hie distinction, that he howedunexample humanit in dealin with soreigner an capti Ves e. g. the Cilician pirates : in his respect Caesar alie a secon place. et a nomines, humanieings, is emphatic. clepugnant, at the to fight to the death Z Pompe is represente a de batin in his own in the late of these men. 23. lancinantur lancinare is sat os animal which ill ithleeth and laws e. g. lion or Panthers. ingenti mole animalium, by animal os monstrous Sige': LPlin Nat. Hist. viii 3 o elephanis et illas moles infestant morbi

even these monster suffer fro diseases).2 . exteriuntur: CL EN. 57, 7 animam hominis magno pondere

extriti Plin Nar Hist. viii 298 messis alibi quarum gressibus exteritur, alibi serticis flatis si ellatur. F. et 5 inuideret should wish to imitate.

1. sub alio caelo natis : ut i Plin is right the elephanis and their layer both came ro Africa This is perhaps imitate byJuv. Ia, o nec Latio aut usquam sub nostro sidere talis belua concisDur.3. conspectu A read conspecIum: ut the se of conspectus in the sense os spectaculum appear t be nexam Pled. . moX i. e. at Pharsalia, Aug. 9, 8 B.C.

5. perfidia the ad viser of in Ptolem invite P. to leave his hi an enter Alexandria o his a to the hore he was murdere in the boat.

D. S. IO

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ultimo mancipio. the meanest os laves' CL Dial. V 37, 2

extremo mancipio vicio, of Pompey corpus sateiasti praestitis: i. e. AchillaS, ho stabile P. sirst, aster hicli Septimius cui ossiuis

6. intellecta the time of this actio is simultaneous illi thatospraebuit sori neve reali sed the truth ill the momentis death. This nexactos of the past participi is mund occasionalty cs. Lucan ii 126 Crassumque in bella secutae saeua tribriniciae uoueritur imprecaled proelia irae, here the action describe bysecratae sol lows the action descri et by nouerunt. Vet it seems that Sen. might have rit te intellegens here. 7. cognomini : P was hornoo6 B.α, ough sor Sulla in Italy Sicilv, and Africa 3-8 B. C., and on his return to Rome, asgreet edi Sulla as Maruus, a co nomen inherited by his sons Lucanosten alis hi in by this name, Cicero an Caesar hardi ever. Livy fragm. libr. xii malles Cornelia ad tres heriusban a gne.' B. I. illo se n. to huc et Io. 8 decessi, I digressed' so excessi Esp. 77 Io. The digression is certaini irrelevant. ostentam subj., no sui ind.9. idem the quendam os Q. io Metellus conquere Hasdrubal in Sicil et 51 B. C. Plinys t. Hist. viii 16 gives the number of capture elephant aso o

II. ante currum stuXisse : CL the triumphing generat cannot properi be aid ducere aliquid ante currum for a man Eucit quod sequitur, but agis quodpraecedit there re duxisse means caused obe led there ac similar se os comptit 74 8, here se n. Thehuma captives led in triumph a re generat lyspolien os as preceding

the car exception a re Troades I 6 currusque sequens Aramemnonios i latisset pomta Treuis Lucan iii 7 celsos, Gallia currus

nobilis et auis se neretur mixta Brisannis. I 3. protulisse pomerium this passage et ps to date the Dialogue se Introd. i. ii

The pomerium derived by the Roman Dom post an murus)Wa a Pace, hept sacre stom occupation, n ei ther fide of thecit wali Liv with in his pace the auspices, at Ome,

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pomerium, differs in ome respecis rona the account give here: he says 1 that he right to exten it elonge to anyone ho bytakin hostile territory so lum Romanum auxerat; a that Julius Caesar extende it. Tacitus also differs frona his account in saying Anu. xii 23, 5 that Augustus extende it. 16. Auentinum montem the Aventine, outh-west os the Palatine an separate Doni it by the circus- valley though included in the Servian wall, was uisi de the pomerium ill the reigia os Claudius Tac. l. l.). 17. stuabus causis Gellius L I. reporis that Messalla, a writeron augury, aVe hi aut horit to the econ reason give here sor

I9. non addixissent, had o been avou rabie ' a technicalterni o augury cf. Liv xxvii 6, i Fabio auspicanti aura semel atque iterum non addixerunt. Ac ordinito Livy' account, Remus first si illi ted si x vultures rom the Aventine, and then Romulus tu elve froni the Palatineri and number prevalle ove prioritn Livy

eto farta rare in his ense, sor referta heiace the propoSalsto emend cf. N. 33, 2 eiusmodi nocibus referta sunt carmina;

76 illud quidem the theatre farium est is cram med). s. I. iste bona, honesti this phras and ais bona id se. g. Hem. I gis occur osten in Sen. ut ad praestationem scribant, even though the pledge them selves to the truth of ha the write 'ci such seem to e themeaning of this legat phrase.

22-2 . TTOre minuent cet. i. e. non os the Mur cardinat VirtueS, WiSdom, temperance, courage, and justice, illi promoted

by these studies fifth virtve Iiberalitas, no a cardinat virtve, is then ad ted. errores in Sen i osten αυ- opiniones, a ron estimate of the gist o fortune the wis man estimates these at thei true value. 25. interim interdum goes, Pthinii, illi dubitare. Fabianus : se n. to Ioa I. 26. stultis, studies, ' researches' common in silve Latin Cicero ould no iis it so ithout an epithet. admoueri, appi oneself middie, O passive . implicari, get entangled. '

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On his passage se Introd. p. viii foll. I. 27. Sapientiae uacant give thei timerio philosophy' se n. to Note that the ver does no mea that the givethei spare timerio philosophy the devote them selves to t.

I. illis adquisitum est, cis an addition to thei store' illis,lit. so them. 2. Rerarum opinionum constitores the Munder of sacreddogmas, i. e. the ounder os philosophic school cf. Dial. vii 26, 7 quotiens mentio sacrarum litterartim interuenerit, fauetellurni s also inina reperra in Lucretius, sed of the Epicurean

philosophy.

uitam, a way of life cf. Lucr. of Epicurus princes uitae rationem ina enit eam quae t nunc assulatur sapientia. The expression is elliptic ve ho ingratitude is e ait tomahe se of thei pionee labourS. . ectenebris a lucem perhaps a recollectionis Lucr. iii sto Epicurus e tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen i qui primus potuisti. 5. eruta SuggeSt mining cs. Hem. I the reasures os philosopli are the true go i and silver hich have been extractediar us by ther cf. ibid. Da.

6. In omnia admittimur, , laave acces to very age': hereis an allusion to a special sense os admiuere, do give an audience

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to ..., usedis the em peror an other grandees cf. De Clem. Io, stolant cohortem primae admissionis the whol number of those holia a firs claim to an audience of AugustuSi. 7. magnitudine animi et . Sen has in in the oblepanegyric o Epicurus in Lucr i a ergo uitii mi animi seruicit, et atra processit ono sanranantia moenia mundi, i atque omne

immensum peragrauit mente animoque. 8. Patiemur, , may Oam.'

a. . disputare, lubitare cet. ac ver is intende to expres the diosyncras os a schoolci Socrates is the eache bymeans of talli, Carneades the sceptic, Epicurus the quietist the Stoic the conquerors, the Cynic the more than conquerorS, s

dubitare the hie precept os the e Academ wa επεχεειν, to ithholdbour assent Dominil propositions Carneades a Chies of the schoollat Athens abo ut 5 B.C. as ambasgador a Rome in I 55 . C., he Scandali sed the Roman by ha seeme to them hisunscrupulous an diaboli cleveriaeS . Io quiescere Epicurus reache the lis os reti rement and abstinence rom public affairs cs. Hor. N. i 8, Io the Epicurea life secretum iter et fallentis semita uitae. hominis naturam bear two senses here a the weakneS Ofhuma naturea et the possibilities of human nature. I 2. cum rerum iutura . . . patiaturi since it is a possibi ething ' the laxus of the universe do no sorbi it cf. De Ben. iii et 6 capit hoc natura Quint. xii I, I natura non prohi et et esse uirum bonum et esse dicendi perit ιna. I 3. quient. . . nos demus, whyshould wemotbetake ourselves Θ': See n. t 7 g .r . ula, the past 'ri se n. to . I 5. melioribus, tu betters ci masc. a. 16. per ossici liscursant, rumabout thenown on errand sos poli teness': cf. D 2.

aliOSque, i. e. eos quo Salutant.

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Writ te insanierunt, perambulauertini et c. sor regula Latin Sagerequires the pers. to e in the ind. after Cum quotiens, henrepeate action is described: s. 64 3 cum eruperi t. The Opyi StS, Preserring the subj after cum, ere aptu change e.g. cum Spexerunti cum aspexerinI; ut the bes mss. osten preserve the triae rea ling. See advi On Cic. De Fin he Seem to considerohat o Latin writer besor Ammianus Marcellinus could e gutit of this

insanierint etc. reser to suture time. I9 praeterierint, 'have est uia visited ' cf. 24 8. diuersissimas, very far part cs. Diat vi 2 , et computa, quam raro liberos Meant nae i. e. mothers, hoὶ in diuersis

omibus habitant Lucan ii 56 ιm Tiride magnus i Euphrates, quos non diversis fontibus est Persis Persi senos sortii hom

et i inistricta : se n. to 4 3. g. 23. Somnus et the reat an is ei ther stili fleep, o solio in his leaSures, o meret rude, an refuSes o See his callor. The insertionis illos he ween quorun and somnus is character istic se n. to D I. 24. OrSerint: i. e. by dela : se n. to tractus et g et themood siue to that of IranScurrant. 25. simulata festinatione : the aste is real the cause sor itis a pretenCe. 27. Obscuros aedium aditus, a back-door.

28. lecipere, uo dodge a caller' cf. Hor. En i , I atria seruantem postico falle talentem. eXcludere m non aemittere l. 6 notrio et in in t ait 'ri f.

Juv. , 6 exclusi spectant admissa obsoniasa tres. 29. graues, incoinfortabie.' illis dat governedi reddent.

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I. rumpentibus, qui timpere solent a convenient ut no a classicalis of the pres participi seen to Sestruentis, odib. I DI. The salutatio ook place at a very early Our s. Juv. 8, 9 habet Trebius propter r/od rumpere Somnti/u i debeat. alienum Somnum, the end of another man's fleelin for this se of exsectare, P. Thomas quotes ac Dial. ouertis Diuque in Verrem libros exsectabit xvho ould have patience to ea to the end. . . in the se is much the sanie a De Beu. iii 27 non ex uas ut tibi narrem you know ithout m tellin yoiij. a. uix alleuatis labris f. clauso labello os uvenal, quot edon et Dy the quotation seenas to ho v that the labra are Ot, asHerme SuPPOSes, thOSe of the nomenta Ialor This appears to ein consistent,ith yawning ': ut perhapsos u ratio is meret open ingo the mouit ' cf. oscitet Hem. ID 7. insusurratum the uomenculator repeat the caller' nameman times in a hisper the reat an at ast catches it an lmanages O get it ut in themiddie of a yawn. In case ou could

3. Pellent has no sense of restoring redii re nomina is nocali eopte by thei right ames Q cf. De Beu i , o memoriae loco audacia est, et, cuicumque nomen non potest rei ere, visonit

he christens him freshὶ Plin Nar Hisf. vii rus rex omnibus in exercitu suo militibus nomina re idit. 5. . ueris ossicii : Sen. avails himself of the outile mean ingos incia Hi socialiutiesci et morat uti es τα καθηκοντα .licet stieamus, may fairly ay. 5. cotidie, in spite oscit positioia, oes no appl to Pythagoras more than to the thermam es Pythagora is no appropriate, as e les no ritings, apparently. The ames are ChoSen o a notrio repeat hos gi ven in Daci ther vis the omission os lato xvould e uia accountable : bove e is represented by Socrates. But, a Sen. vas a Stoic the Stoic are referre t in both places, and Zeno, thei Munder, is ut res here. antistites the writer are calle pri estS, Lecause thei theineis sacredri f. Diat. vii 26. I suspicite look up to uirtutem, . . . et

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professores eius tit antistites colite Lilin Nat. Hist. vii 11 Platoni sapientiae auristiti. 6. adire, inserte by Thomas aster artium, improves the style but it ma be a correctionis the author. 7. nemo Orum non uacabit, ione of these ill e motat Home V cf. et Q. See Macaula quote in Introd. p. ix. Sen. regarus the dea author asie in visited Macaulay, as visit ors an Macaula would o have besen pleased is his visi tors ad alibeen philosophe ΓS.

9. amantiorem ulcis ambiguous oui a reser i to the subjectis dimittet and in te of ad se above, his seenis more likelyn orit ma reser et to the visitor, hoaeisseace of min&hom the philosopher cf. Hor. N. Io quid te tibi re at amicum t is characteristic of the occupatus that he displicet sibi cs Dial. ix et i hinc illud est taedium et displicentia sui.

contribuet the subjec is quisque to e supplied out o nemo cf. Cic. Ad Att. vii et nemo tic ita ad eri omniaque quae nolim nobod bring news here to that effecti and Perybod iring on ly

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