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I was shipwrecked before I got on board. — Seneca

Letter

I was shipwrecked before I got on board.

In the original Latin

Naufragium, antequam navem adscenderem, feci

Seneca
65
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Topic
The human condition
Statement type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Medium
Letter
Time
65Classical antiquity
Person
Seneca
Provenance
Current citation
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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