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Greek Anthology Book I Chapter XII Part III

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Daily Birth, Palladas

XXIII
DAILY BIRTH
PALLADAS

Day by day we are born as night retires, no more possessing aught of our former life, estranged from our course of yesterday, and beginning to-day the life that remains. Do not then call thyself, old man, abundant in years; for to-day thou hast no share in what is gone.



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