TO-MORROW.
Ep. 45.

Recognosce singulos, considera universos; nullius non vita spectat in crastinum.

Examine each individual, and consider the whole world, and you will find that there is no man's life that is not aiming at to-morrow.

MANNERS.
Ep. 47.

Sibi quisque dat mores; ministeria casus assignat. Each giveth himself manners: chance bestoweth his office in life.

SWIFTNESS OF TIME.
Ep. 49.

Infinita est velocitas temporis, quæ magis apparet respicientibus.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back upon the past.

LANGUAGE OF TRUTH.
Ep. 49.

Veritatis simplex oratio est.

The language of truth is simple.

ORIGINAL SIN.
Ep. 50.

Ad neminem ante bona mens venit, quam mala.
To no man comes a good mind before an evil.

TO DO A THING WILLINGLY.

Ep. 61.

Ita dico, qui imperia libens excipit, partem acerbissimam servitutis effugit, facere quod nolit.

Non, qui jussus aliquid facit, miser est: sed qui invitus facit.

I maintain that he who willingly submits to another man's command has escaped from the most cruel part of servitude,—that is to say, to do that which he is unwilling to do. The most miserable man is not he that has a command put upon him, but the man that does it against his will.

TO LEARN.
Ep. 76.

Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu nescias et, si proverbio credimus, quamdiu vivas.

Thou must learn as long as thou art ignorant, and, if we give credit to the proverb, so long as thou livest.

RETIREMENT.
Ep. 82.

Otium sine literis mors est, et hominis vivi sepultura. Retirement without study is death and the grave of a living

man.

LIFE.
Ep. 93.

Non vixit iste, sed in vitâ moratus est; nec sero mortuus est, sed diu.

This man lived not, but merely had an abode in this life: he died not lately, but long ago.

DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY.

Ep. 94.

Ab alio expectes, alteri quod feceris.
Expect from another what you do to another.

DIGNITY.
Ep. 101.

Facilius crescit dignitas quam incipit.
Dignity increases more easily than begins.

LIFE.
Ep. 101.

Quam stultum est, ætatem disponere ne crastini quidem dominum! O quanta dementia est spes longas inchoantium!

What a foolish thing it is to promise ourselves a long life, who are not masters of even to-morrow! How mad are they who live on long hopes!

LIKE SPEECH, Like Life.
Ep. 114.

Talis hominibus est oratio, qualis vita.
Men's conversation resembles their kind of lives.

YOUNG MEN out of a BAND-BOX.

Ep. 115.

Nôsti complures juvenes, barbâ et comâ nitidos, de capsulâ totos: nihil ab illis speraveris forte, nihil solidum Oratio vultus animi est.

You know some young men, with beard and hair so trimmed, as if they had stepped out of a band-box, but you could expect nothing great from such parties. The conversation is the index of the mind.

TO STRIVE AGAINST NATURE.
Ep. 122.

Contra naturam nitentibus, non alia vita est, quam contra aquam remigantibus.

The life of those who strive against nature is no otherwise than theirs who strive against the stream.

TALE-BEARERS.
Ep. 123.

Pessimum genus hominum videbatur, qui verba gestarent sunt quidam, qui vitia gestant. Horum sermo multo nocet: nam etiamsi non statim officit, semina in animo relinquit; sequiturque nos, etiam quum ab illis discessimus, resurrecturum postea malum.

Tale-bearers were reputed the worst sort of men; but some there are which bear vices. The speech of these sort of men is productive of much mischief; for although it hurts not instantly, yet it leaves some seeds in the mind, and it follows us even when we have left them, likely hereafter to enkindle in us a new evil.

SILIUS ITALICUS

DILIGENCE IN WAR.

Pun. i. 569.

Tempore Martis

Utendum est rapto, et grassandum ad clara periclis.

A speedy diligence is best in war;

The way to honour is where dangers are.

SENATE OF ROME.

Pun. i. 609.

Concilium vocat augustum, castâque beatos
Paupertate Patres, ac nomina parta triumphis
Consul, et æquantem superos virtute senatum.
Facta animosa viros, et recti sacra cupido
Attollunt, hirtæque comæ, neglectaque mensa,
Dexteraque a curvis capulo non segnis aratris :
Exiguo faciles, et opum non indiga corda,
Ad parvos curru remeabant sæpe penates.
The consul calls a solemn council, where
Fathers of unstain'd poverty appear;

Whose worthy names do from their triumphs rise,
A senate that in virtue equalise

The gods; such men as valiant acts to fame
Commend; whom just desires of right enflame;
Their beards and hair neglected on their brow;
Their hands familiar with the crooked plough;
Content with little; hearts whom no desire
Of wealth torments; who often did retire
To their small lares in triumphal cars.

TRUE VIRTUE.

Pun. ii. 578.

Ardua virtutem profert via: pergite primi
Nec facilem populis, nec notam invadere laudem.

True virtue gets esteem

From hardest things. Go on, that praise to gain,
Which hardly meaner people can obtain.

DEATH MUST COME IN PEACE OR WAR.

Pun. iii. 134.

Et pace et bello cunctis stat terminus ævi,
Extremumque diem primus tulit: ire per ora
Nomen in æternum paucis mens ignea donat,
Quos pater ætheriis cœlestum destinat oris.
In peace or war, we all must have
A period to our life. Our first day gave
A being to our last. Brave thoughts do few
Enflame, by noble actions, to pursue
Eternal fame: such only mighty Jove
Hath destined to the bless'd abodes above.

VALOUR SUPPRESSED.

Pun, iii. 580.

Blandoque veneno

Desidiæ virtus paullatim evicta senescit.
Valour suppress'd doth perish by degrees.

THE VULGAR.

Pun. iv. 8.

Adstruit auditis, docilis per inania rerum
Pascere rumorem vulgi, pavor.

The people's fear,

Apt to believe the vainest things they hear,
The rumour feeds.

PATIENCE.

Pun. vi. 375.

Nec tam fugisse cavendo

Adversa egregium, quam perdomuisse ferendo.

Nor is 't so honourable to

Avoid misfortunes by our vigilance,
As to o'ercome by noble sufferance
Whatever Fate can do.

MISERY REMINDS MAN OF GOD.
Pun. vii. 88.

Tanta adeo, cum res trepidæ, reverentia divům
Nascitur: at raræ fumant felicibus aræ.

From the approach of miseries

So great a rev'rence of the gods doth rise.
The happy seldom to their altars come.

TO INJURE OUR COUNTRY.

Pun. vii. 554.

Accipe, et æterno fixum sub pectore serva :
Succensere nefas patriæ, nec fœdior ulla
Culpa sub extremas fertur mortalibus umbras.
But this, my son, believe,

And from thy aged sire as truth receive :
To be incensed against our country is
A sin so great, that none, to the abyss
Of hell, can with a fouler crime descend.