Sunday, October 11, 2026
A General Mutilation
Democritus, fragment 296 (tr. Kathleen Freeman):
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Old age is a general mutilation. It possesses everything (i.e. all the limbs and organs), but they each lack something.
γῆρας ὁλόκληρός ἐστι πήρωσις· πάντ' ἔχει καὶ πᾶσιν ἐνδεῖ.
