alveo quoque et calculis interdum vacasse dicitur, cum bene ac diu iura civium, caerimonias deorum ordinasset; ut enim in rebus seriis Scaevolam ita in [scaelus] lusibus hominem agebat, quem Rerum Natura continui laboris patientem esse non sinit.
He is said also to have sometimes spent time with gaming board and pieces, after ordering long and well the rights of citizens and the rituals of the gods. In serious matters he behaved as Scaevola, in play as a human being, whom the Nature of Things does not permit to endure unbroken labour.
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