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Indulgent to the movements of nature, opposed to its struggles, never mistaking chastity for a virtue, always considering luxury as a vice, he insisted upon sobriety as an economy of the appetite, and that the repasts in which one indulged should never injure him who partook. His motto was: "Sic praesentibus voluptatibus utaris ut futuris non noceas."

In cuius rei testimonium, his praesentibus manu nostra signatis, magnum sigillum nostrum regni nostri Angleiae apponi fecimus. Datae e Regia nostra Grenwici quinto die mensis Iunij, Anno Dom. 1583. Regni vero nostri vicessimo quinto. The same in English.

I shall discuss these matters at greater length when I treat of women and the management of their property. Dio, 54, 16. Pomponius in Dig., 23, 2, 4. Gaius, i, 113. Ulpian, Tit., ix, 1: Farreo convenit uxor in manum certis verbis et testibus X praesentibus et sollemni sacrificio facto, in quo panis quoque farreus adhibetur. Cf. Gaius, i, 112. Aulus Gellius, iii, 2, 12. Gaius, i, 111.

Haec quoque distat ab Hierosolymis: fortassis a dietas. Porro a Nazareth quatuor leucis, est ciuitas olim dicta Naym, in 2. milario Thahor montis contra Meridiem iuxta Endor. Ieronimus. Ante cuius portam resuscitauit Christus defunctum filium vnicum matris suae, praesentibus duabus turmis hominum copiosorum.

Philosophy, in fact, was to Aristippus a method of social culture, a means of making the best of life as he found it. Omnis Aristippum decuit color et status et res Tentantem majora, fere praesentibus aequum. "Every aspect and manner of life and fortune fitted Aristippus; he aimed at what was greater, yet kept an even, mind whatever his present condition."