Death & Dying
Book VIII, 91: On the Same
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Caesarius, who alone by his winged mind grasped the whole wisdom of man’s subtle thought concerning geometry and the position of the heavenly bodies, and also the falls of the art of Logic, and Grammar too and Medicine and powerful Rhetoric, is now, alas! like all the rest, a handful of dust.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Nazianzus, Gregory of. “Book VIII, 91: On the Same.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gregory-nazianzus/96/.
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Nazianzus, Gregory of. “Book VIII, 91: On the Same.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gregory-nazianzus/96/.
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