Living
Book X, 82
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Is it not true that we are dead and only seem to live, we Greeks, fallen into misfortune, fancying that a dream is life? Or are we alive and is life dead ?
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