Note 426 — Chapter II · ROME, THE CITY OF RUINS.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
He tried ‘curis animique doloribus quacunque ratione aditum intercludere;’ music and lively conversation charmed him, and he hoped by their means to live longer. Leonis X. Vita Anonyma, in Roscoe, ed. Bossi, xii. p. 169.