had twice been carried away.
O Time! consumer of all things, and O envious age! by which all things are all devoured.
Death.
1164.
Every evil leaves behind a grief in our memory, except the supreme evil, that is death, which destroys this memory together with life.
How to spend life
(1165-1170).
1165.
0 sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? [Footnote: Compare No. 676, Vol. I. p. 353.]
1166.
One pushes down the other.
By these square-blocks are meant the life and the studies of men.
1167.
The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both