{"id":423,"date":"2013-04-15T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2013-04-15T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:53:10","slug":"chapter-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/chapter-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dum descendunt per viam sacram, interrogat Mercurius, quid sibi velit ille concursus hominum, num Claudii funus esset. Et erat omnium formosissimum et impensa cura, plane ut scires deum efferri: tubicinum, cornicinum, omnis generis aenatorum tanta turba, tantus concentus, ut etiam Claudius audire posset.<\/p>\n<p>Omnes laeti, hilares: populus Romanus ambulabat tanquam liber, Agatho et pauci causidici plorabant, sed plane ex animo. Iurisconsulti e tenebris procedebant, pallidi, graciles, vix animam habentes, tanquam qui tum maxime reviviscerent. Ex his unus cum vidisset capita conferentes et fortunas suas deplorantes causidicos, accedit et ait: &#8220;dicebam vobis: non semper Saturnalia erunt.&#8221; Claudius ut vidit funus suum, intellexit se mortuum esse. Ingenti enim\u00a0<i>megal\u00f4i chorik\u00f4i<\/i>\u00a0nenia cantabatur anapaestis:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fundite fletus, edite planctus, resonet tristi clamore forum:<br \/>\ncecidit pulchre cordatus homo<br \/>\nquo non alius fuit in toto<br \/>\nfortior orbe.<br \/>\nIlle citato vincere cursu<br \/>\npoterat celeres, ille rebelles<br \/>\nfundere Parthos levibusque sequi<br \/>\nPersida telis, certaque manu<br \/>\ntendere nervum, qui praecipites<br \/>\nvulnere parvo figeret hostes,<br \/>\npictaque Medi terga fugacis.<\/p>\n<p>Ille Britannos ultra noti<br \/>\nlitora ponti<br \/>\net caeruleos scuta Brigantas<br \/>\ndare Romuleis colla catenis<br \/>\niussit et ipsum nova Romanae<br \/>\niura securis tremere Oceanum.<br \/>\nDeflete virum, quo non alius<br \/>\npotuit citius discere causas,<br \/>\nuna tantum parte audita,<br \/>\nsaepe et neutra. Quis nunc iudex<br \/>\ntoto lites audiet anno?<\/p>\n<p>Tibi iam cedet sede relicta,<br \/>\nqui dat populo iura silenti,<br \/>\nCretaea tenens oppida centum.<br \/>\nCaedite maestis pectora palmis,<br \/>\nO causidici, venale genus.<br \/>\nVosque poetae lugete novi,<br \/>\nvosque in primis qui concusso<br \/>\nmagna parastis lucra fritillo.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dum descendunt per viam sacram, interrogat Mercurius, quid sibi velit ille concursus hominum, num Claudii funus esset. Et erat omnium formosissimum et impensa cura, plane ut scires deum efferri: tubicinum, cornicinum, omnis generis aenatorum tanta turba, tantus concentus, ut etiam Claudius audire posset. Omnes laeti, hilares: populus Romanus ambulabat tanquam liber, Agatho et pauci causidici [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":947,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-423","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/seneca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}