Institutio Oratoria

quantulum enim studiis partimur Alias horas vanus salutandi labor, alias datum tabulis otium, alias spectacula, alias convivia trahunt. adiice tot genera ludendi et insanam corporis curam, peregrinatio, rura, calculorum anxiam sollicitudinem, invitamenta libidinum et vinum et flagrantibus omni genere voluptatum animis [*](the text is as corrected by Halm. the MSS. give a variety of readings. the chief alterations involved by Halm's correction are invitanienta for multae causae, multae eam, etc., and flagrantibus for flagitis. the other changes are of the simplest and most ordinary character. ) ne ea quidem tempora idonea, quae supersunt.