That it is so, time evinces; which, as it advances, brings with it so much mitigation that though the same misfortunes continue, the grief not only becomes the less, but in some cases is entirely removed.

Many Carthaginians were slaves at Rome, and many Macedonians, when Perseus their king was taken prisoner.

I saw, too, when I was a young man, some Corinthians in the Peloponnesus.

They might all have lamented with Andromache, All these I saw......; but they had perhaps given over lamenting themselves, for by their countenances, and speech, and other gestures you might have taken them for Argives or Sicyonians.

And I myself was more concerned at the ruined walls of Corinth than the Corinthians themselves were, whose minds by frequent reflection and time had become callous to such sights.