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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 1
Section 12 of 2,141
Canonical reference 3.1
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Epistulas ad me perferendas tradidisti, ut scribis, amico tuo; deinde admones me, ne omnia cum eo ad te pertinentia communicem, quia non soleas ne ipse quidem id facere; ita in eadem epistula illum et dixisti amicum et negasti. Itaque si proprio illo verbo quasi publico usus es et sic illum amicum vocasti, quomodo omnes candidatos bonos viros dicimus, quomodo obvios, si nomen non succurrit, dominos salutamus, hac abierit.
French
Baillard 1914
Tu as chargé de lettres pour moi, à ce que tu m’écris, un de tes amis. Puis tu me préviens de ne pas lui communiquer tout ce qui te touche, attendu que toi-même n’es point dans l’habitude de le faire. Ainsi, dans la même lettre, tu le reconnais pour ami et tu le désavoues. Ainsi ce mot, par où tu débutes, était une
formule banale : tu disais mon ami, comme on dit l’honorable homme de tout candidat possible, comme le passant, dont le nom ne nous revient pas, est salué par nous du titre de maître. Pour cela passe.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a “friend” of yours, as you call him. And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that even you yourself are not accustomed to do this; in other words, you have in the same letter affirmed and denied that he is your friend.
Concepts in this passage
Care of the soul
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Friendship
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Messiah
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Salvation
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Virtue
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War and peace
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Wisdom
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