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HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS by PALLADAS

First Line: A SAD AND GREAT EVIL IS THE EXPECTATION OF DEATH
Last Line: FOR AFTER DEATH THERE COMES NO OTHER CALAMITY.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

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.



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