Thursday, August 31, 2006

 

The Self-Tormentor

John Owen, Epigrams 9.44 (Heautontimoroumenos, tr. Thomas Harvey):
Dum mortem vitare studet, vitamque tueri,
  se toto vitae tempore torquet homo.
Bruta bonis fruitur praesentis bestia vitae;
  dum vivit, vivit; cum moritur, moritur.

While Death to shun, Life to preserve, poor Man
Doth vex himself the space of all his span.
Brute Beasts enjoy the present Life's supply,
Living they live, and when they die, they die.



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