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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS, by PALLADAS Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad and great evil is the expectation of death
Last Line: For after death there comes no other calamity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: A sad and great evil is the expectation of death
Last Line: For after death there comes no other calamity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
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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