Seneca 64 CE · Roman Italy
Run with Pharius
Before bathing · Estimated placement
Estimated by typical tue. 10:00 is illustrative; duration unknown.Source timing: Before the bath.
“We raced to a tie”
Short verbatim excerpt · Seneca · translated by Richard M. Gummere
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Philosophical letter · first-person accountOpen
Moral Letters to Lucilius — Letter 83, “On Drunkenness”
Loeb Classical Library · Volume II · Wikisource transcription
Letter 83, sections 3–6
Passage: Sections 4–5
Timing & context
A note on this hour
Pharius, an enslaved young companion, acts as his pacemaker.
Retirement · an undated day in Letter 83 · A day described in a philosophical letter
Seneca describes a day, not a fixed timetable. The letter gives a sequence but no clock times; every placement is illustrative.
64 CE is a representative year within the letters’ late-life period, not a date recorded for this day.
Dating of the letters · Gummere’s introduction ↗