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Greek Anthology Book I Chapter XII Part III

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2 Eternities, Leonidas of Tarentum

XXVI
TWO ETERNITIES
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM

Infinite, O man, was the foretime until thou camest to thy dawn, and what remains is infinite on through Hades: what share is left for life but the bigness of a pinprick, and tinier than a pinprick if such there be? Little is thy life and afflicted; for not even so it is sweet, but more loathed than hateful death.



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