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  1. A quotation from Euripides

    APOLLO: If she dies old, the burial will be richer.
    DEATH: Phoebus, that argument favours the rich.
    APOLLO: What! Are you witty unawares?
    DEATH: The rich would gladly pay to die old.
     
    [ἈΠΌΛΛΩΝ: κἂν γραῦς ὄληται, πλουσίως ταφήσεται.
    ΘΆΝΑΤΟΣ: πρὸς τῶν ἐχόντων, Φοῖβε, τὸν νόμον τίθης.
    ἈΠΌΛΛΩΝ: πῶς εἶπας; ἀλλ᾽ ἦ καὶ σοφὸς λέληθας ὤν;
    ΘΆΝΑΤΟΣ: ὠνοῖντ᾽ ἂν οἷς πάρεστι γηραιοὶ θανεῖν.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l. 56ff (438 BC) [tr. Aldington (1930)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/86314/

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