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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 10
Section 1,796 of 2,141
Canonical reference 107.10
Latin
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Quare inpigri atque alacres excipiamus imperia nec deseramus hunc operis pulcherrimi cursum, cui quidquid patiemur, intextum est. Et sic adloquamur Iovem, cuius gubernaculo moles ista derigitur, quemadmodum Cleanthes noster versibus disertissimis adloquitur, quos mihi in nostrum sermonem mutare permittitur Ciceronis, disertissimi viri, exemplo. Si placuerint, boni consules; si displicuerint, scies me in hoc secutum Ciceronis exemplum:
French
Baillard 1914
Recevons avec dévouement et avec joie ses commandements ; ne troublons point, lâches déserteurs, la marche de cette belle création où tout ce que nous souffrons est partie nécessaire. Disons à Jupiter, qui tient le gouvernail et dirige le grand tout, ce que lui dit le stoïcien Cléanthe en vers éloquents que l’exemple de l’éloquent Cicéron me permet de traduire en notre langue. S’ils te plaisent, tu m’en sauras gré ; sinon, songe à Cicéron dont je n’ai fait que suivre l’exemple.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
For this reason we should welcome our orders with energy and vigour, nor should we cease to follow the natural course of this most beautiful universe, into which all our future sufferings are woven. Let us address Jupiter, the pilot of this world-mass, as did our great Cleanthes in those most eloquent lines - lines which I shall allow myself to render in Latin, after the example of the eloquent Cicero. If you like them, make the most of them; if they displease you, you will understand that I have simply been following the practice of Cicero:
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