Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 3

Negat me epistula prima totam quaestionem explicuisse, in qua probare conabar id quod nostris placet, claritatem, quae post mortem contingit, bonum esse. Id enim me non solvisse, quod opponitur nobis: Nullum, inquiunt, bonum ex distantibus. Hoc autem ex distantibus constat.

je veux le ressaisir à tout prix.

Tu dis au début de ta lettre que je n’ai pas entièrement développé ma thèse stoïcienne « que l’illustration qui s’obtient après la mort est un bien, qu’en effet je n’ai pas résolu l’objection qu’on nous oppose : « Jamais il n’y a de bien où il y a solution de continuité ; or ici cette solution a lieu.

There was a remark, at the beginning of your letter, that I had not explained the whole problem - wherein I was endeavouring to prove one of the beliefs of our school, that the renown which falls to one’s lot after death is a good; for I had not solved the problem with which we are usually confronted: “No good can consist of things that are distinct and separate; yet renown consists of such things.”