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[19] Non est quod existimes magnis tantum viris hoc robur fuisse, quo servitutis humanae claustra perrumperent; non est quod iudices hoc fieri nisi a Catone non posse, qui quam ferro non emiserat animam manu extraxit. Vilissimae sortis homines 1 ingenti impetu in tutum evaserunt, 2 cumque e commodo 3 mori non licuisset nec ad arbitrium suum instrumenta mortis eligere, obvia quaeque rapuerunt et quae natura non erant noxia, vi sua tela fecerunt.

1 extraxit: vilissimae sortis homines several editors, including Hense and Haase; extraxit hutilissimae sortis hominis p; extraxit cum vilissimae sortis homines VPb.

2 evaserunt Haase; evaserit or evaserint MSS.

3 cumque e(x) commodo C.F.G. Mueller; cumque commodo (quomodo) Pb; cumque incommodo p.

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.

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