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[17] Opus est tamen calorem solis aestivi umbra crassiore propellere." Quid ergo ? Non vetustas multa dedit 1 loca, quae vel iniuria temporis vel alio quolibet casu excavata in specum recesserunt ? Quid ergo ? Non quilibet 2 virgeam cratera texuerunt manu et vili obliverunt luto, deinde stipula 3 aliisque silvestribus operuere fastigium, et pluviis per devexa labentibus hiemem transiere 4 securi ? Quid ergo ? Non in defosso latent Syrticae gentes quibusque propter nimios solis ardores nullum tegimentum satis repellendis caloribus solidum est nisi ipsa arens humus ?
1 dedit Madvig; abdidit MSS. Buecheler suspects the whole clause to be corrupt. H. Müller suggests abdita dedit.
2 quilibet later MSS.; quaelibet B. G. Gemoll believes that the words quid ergo ... securi should be placed at the head of §17.
3 stipula Hense et al.; despicula B; de stipula cod. Harl. followed by Haase.
4 transiere later MSS.; transire B.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.
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