2 For if what is really enough for man could have satisfied him, this had been enough. Now since this is not so, how can we believe that any riches whatever could satisfy desire?
3 ... just as when the dealer has produced his first fresh figs, and in the early season gives only a few for an exorbitant price.[1669]
4 For one and the same pain and distress is.... by all—
5 ... if his body remained as strong.... as the sentiments of the writer's heart continue true....
6 Say when force compels you to penetrate gradually through the seams of the crannies, in the darkness of night.[1670]
7 Since you alone, in my great sorrow and distress, and in my extremity of difficulty, proved yourself a haven of safety to me—[1671]
8 He was, I think, the only one who watched over me; and when he seemed to me to be doing that, he laid snares for me![1672]
9 ...
10 Still it is allowed that one of the ancients, an old man of the same years, Tiresias, fell.
11 Look not to the rostrum and feet of the prætor elect.[1673]