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Homage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus

(Ex libris Graecae)

I

Theodorus will be pleased at my death,

And someone else will be pleased at the death of Theodorus,
And yet everyone speaks evil of death.

II

This place is the Cyprian's, for she has ever the fancy

To be looking out across the bright sea,
Therefore the sailors are cheered, and the waves
Keep small with reverence, beholding her image.
Anyte.

III

A sad and great evil is the expectation of death

And there are also the inane expenses of the funeral;
Let us therefore cease from pitying the dead
For after death there comes no other calamity.
Palladas.

 

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