Friday, June 10, 2016
Death
Lucian, Toxaris 38 (tr. H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler):
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Death is a God who assumes many shapes; numberless are the roads that lead into his presence.Latin translation by Erasmus:
ποικίλος γὰρ οὗτος ὁ θεὸς ὁ θάνατος καὶ ἀπείρους τὰς ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτὸν παρέχεται ἀγούσας ὁδούς.
varius est iste deus interitus, atque innumerabiles aperit vias quibus ad illum sit aditus.Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.1.9 (quoting Cestius Pius, tr. Michael Winterbottom):
This is mankind's wretched lot, that we have one way to be born—but many to die: the noose, the sword, a precipice, poison, shipwreck and a thousand other deaths lie in wait for this wretched life.
haec est condicio miserrima humani generis, quod nascimur uno modo, multis morimur: laqueus, gladius, praeceps locus, venenum, naufragium, mille aliae mortes insidiantur huic miserrimae vitae.
