This text is part of:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[3]
Nec tantum condicio illos temporum
aut locorum inopia pauperibus exaequat; sumunt
quosdam dies, eum iam illos divitiarum taedium cepit,
quibus humi cenent et remoto auro argentoque
fictilibus utantur. Dementes ! hoc quod aliquando
concupiscunt, semper timent. O quanta illos caligo
mentium, quanta ignorantia veritatis excaecat, quos
timor paupertatis 1 exercet, quam voluptatis causa
imitantur!
1 excaecat, quos timor paupertatis added by Vahlen.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
