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Thanks to the AGLAE series, a text written in Latin or Ancient Greek is no longer merely a translation exercise, but a work in its own right, approached in a proactive manner.
In this volume, Seneca will guide you toward a better life and help you progress on the path to wisdom!
Excerpts from Letters to Lucilius and On the Shortness of Life are presented here according to the gradual approach intended by the collection, to give you quicker access to the philosopher's praecepta in the original language.
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Ad legentes/Aux lecteurs et lectrices
Capitulum I. Tempus tantum nostrum est
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lūcīlium, I (quibusdam omissīs)
Capitulum II. Vīta brevis est
Seneca, Dē brevitāte vītae, XVI, § 1-4
Capitulum III. Poētārum furor
Seneca, Dē brevitāte vītae, XVI, 5-XVII, 1-5 (quibusdam omissīs)
Capitulum IV. Dē occupātīs (pars I)
Seneca, Dē brevitāte vītae, XII, 1-4 (quibusdam omissīs)
Capitulum V. Dē occupātīs (pars II)
Seneca, Dē brevitāte vītae, XII, 5-9
Capitulum VI. Flūctuāmur inter varia cōnsilia
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lūcīlium, V, 52, 1-4
Capitulum VII. Dē adiūtōribus inveniendīs
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lūcīlium, V, 52, §6-8
Capitulum VIII. Exhortātiō ad prōficiendum
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lūcīlium, I, 4, 1-4
Capitulum IX. Praecepta ad bene vīvendum
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lūcīlium, I, 4, 5-11 (quibusdam omissīs)
Capitulum X. Philosophī, prōficientēs atque amīcī
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lūcīlium, IV, 35
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