Tuesday, August 05, 2014
It Matters Not to Me
Greek Anthology 7.704 = Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Vol. 2: Fragmenta Adespota, edd. R. Kannicht and B. Snell (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981; rpt. 2007), #513, p. 145 (tr. W.R. Paton):
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When I am dead may earth be mingled with fire. It matters not to me, for with me all is well.See also Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), #1038, pp. 764-765.
ἐμοῦ θανόντος γαῖα μιχθήτω πυρί·
οὐδὲν μέλει μοι· τἀμὰ γὰρ καλῶς ἔχει.