Capitolo 56
appraised by the pleasure of material it has to offer. The theory of a man of the life
it is greatly a matter of the temperament or constitution. He can find support
for him in the teachings of the philosophy, but he is proper to choose a
philosophy that its way of thinking goes rather than well to make its sights of
life is determined by teachings of abstract philosophic. The men which
epitaphs that we have read as soon as you/they would probably have been hedonists if Epicurus
you/he/she had never lived. It is interesting to notice in to pass that equity holding this
the conception of the life naturally implies the acceptance of one of the
notions of death above that we considered--that it ends everybody.
In another connection, one year or two ago, I had occasion to speak of the
literary worth of some of these metricals epitaphs,[52] of their interest
for us as champions of the literary compositions of the common people, and
of their value in to point out the aesthetical taste of the Roman I mediate. It
you/he/she cannot be here without interest to speak of the literary form of some of
them an a little for a longer time of it was possible in that connection. Latin
you/he/she has always been, and continuous to be among modern peoples a favorite,
language for epitaphs and dedications. The reasons because it contains his
favorite position doesn't have to look for far. It is vigorous and concise. Then
again in English and in more modern languages the order that you/they are able words
takes in a determined sentence it is in more sheltered cases inexorably from grammatical
necessity. It was not so with the Latin. His/her character extremely flex did
it possible, as we know, to systematize the words in which you/they bring an idea
various orders, and these different groupings of the same words gave
different shades to want to tell the sentence and different sensitive person
effects are insured changing the sequence in that the young person
the conceptions are introduced. Putting contrasted words sides from side, or to
stings correspondents in the sentence, the impression is elevated. When a