A shipwreck
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
shipwreck · shipwrecked
spoken of as
1 expressionshipwreck1 mention
Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
I made shipwreck before I went aboard the ship.
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
A shipwreck or loss suffered by Seneca before embarking, which taught him how many possessions are superfluous.
I made shipwreck before I went aboard the ship.
On Benefits
The disaster that casts the soldier onto the Macedonian host's lands, precipitating the narrative
on receiving which the king so blazed up that he straightway ordered Pausanias to restore the goods to the former owner, and, for the rest, to brand the most wicked soldier, the most ungrateful host, the most greedy survivor of shipwreck, with marks witnessing him an ungrateful man.