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| Epicurus, The Extant Remains, translated by Cyril Bailey (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926). | Epicurus, The Extant Remains, translated by Cyril Bailey (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926). | ||
| - | ====== Letter to Idomeneus ====== | + | ====== |
| Epicurus wrote this brief note to a member of his school while on his death-bed: | Epicurus wrote this brief note to a member of his school while on his death-bed: | ||
| On this blissful day, which is also the last of my life, I write this to you. My continual sufferings from strangury and dysentery are so great that nothing could increase them; but I set above them all the gladness of mind at the memory of our past conversations. But I would have you, as becomes your lifelong attitude to me and to philosophy, watch over the children of Metrodorus. | On this blissful day, which is also the last of my life, I write this to you. My continual sufferings from strangury and dysentery are so great that nothing could increase them; but I set above them all the gladness of mind at the memory of our past conversations. But I would have you, as becomes your lifelong attitude to me and to philosophy, watch over the children of Metrodorus. | ||
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