EPISTVLA I第一封信Letter 1
De nomine关于这个名字On the name
YIFENG LECTORI SVO SALVTEMYifeng 向他的读者问好Yifeng greets his reader
这个网站叫 vindibi，名字来自塞涅卡《致卢西利乌斯书信》第一封的开头：Vindica te tibi。
把这句话压缩一下：VIND[ICA TE T]IBI。中间几个字母掉了出去，剩下的就是 vindibi。塞涅卡在同一句里写道，时间要么被夺走，要么被偷走，要么自己溜走（excidebat）。excidere 的字面意思，正是“掉出去”。
vindicare 原本是罗马法里的词，意思是主张某物归自己所有。所以 vindica te tibi 更接近“把自己要回来”。整封信的要点是一句话：Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est。一切都是别人的，只有时间是我们自己的。
所以这个网站尽量不占用你的时间：没有弹窗，没有追踪，打开就是正文。页面的光线跟着你当地的时间变化，入夜以后会暗下来，像在灯下读信。全站只用一种颜色，朱砂红。老普林尼说，它既用来书写卷轴，也用来让墙上、大理石上乃至墓碑上的字更醒目。
以后我会在这里写信，也会放一些论文。
This site is called vindibi. The name comes from the opening of Seneca’s first letter to Lucilius: Vindica te tibi.
Compress the phrase to VIND[ICA TE T]IBI, and a few letters fall out of the middle; what remains is vindibi. In the same sentence Seneca writes that our time is either taken from us, stolen, or simply slips away (excidebat). Excidere means, quite literally, to fall out.
Vindicare was a word of Roman law: to claim something as rightfully your own. So vindica te tibi is closer to “claim yourself back”. The whole letter comes down to one line: Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est. Everything, Lucilius, belongs to others; time alone is ours.
So this site tries not to take up your time. No pop-ups, no tracking; it opens straight onto the text. Its light follows your local hour and dims after dark, like reading a letter by lamplight. It uses a single color, cinnabar, which Pliny the Elder says was used for writing in books and to make letters stand out on walls, on marble, and even on tombs.
From now on I will write letters here, and keep some papers here too.
Vale.珍重。Farewell.
写于 2026 年 10 月 7 日Written on 7 October 2026