1Are you studying, or fishing, or hunting, or doing all at once? 1For all can be done at once by our Larius. 1For the lake supplies fish in plenty, the woods that encircle the lake supply game, and that deepest of retreats supplies studies. 2But whether you are doing everything at once or one thing only, I cannot say 'I envy you'; 2yet it torments me that I am not allowed it too, longing for it as sick men long for wine, baths and springs. 2Shall I never break these tightest of snares, if I am not allowed to untie them? 2Never, I think. 3For new business grows on top of old, and still the earlier is not finished: with so many bonds, so many chains as it were, the column of my occupations stretches out longer every day.
3Farewell.