Seneca · c. 4 BCE – 65 CE
On Benefits 6.7 ¶1–2 — Seneca
Translation by Aubrey Stewart (1887)
Seneca, On Benefits 6.7 ¶1–2
Your face, by which I have agreed to be guided, now becomes wrinkled with frowns, as though I were straying too widely from the subject. You seem to say to me: “Why steer to seaward? Hither bend thy course, Hug close the shore…”
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Seneca, On Benefits 6.7 ¶1–2, tr. Aubrey Stewart (1887)
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Seneca, Dialogues, tr. Aubrey Stewart (1887–1889). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences
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AI-written notesA brief aside in which the author imagines his friend frowning at his drift from the subject and quotes a line telling him to hug the shore, meaning stay close to the topic.
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- Learning and progress
- Judgements and impressions
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