Lucretius on Death
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“E mediis Orci faucibus ad hunc evasi modum.
From the very jaws of death I have escaped to this condition.”
“Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.”