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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. — Martial

Epigram

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

In the original Latin

Summum nec metuas diem nec optes.

Martial
Epigrams · 103
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Fear of deathDeath
Medium
Epigram
Time
103Classical antiquity
Person
Martial
Provenance
Current citation
Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 10, no. 47.
Original citation
Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 10, no. 47.

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