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EPIGRAM CCXXXVI.
[How strange, (said once a philosophic Greek,)]
SAUVITER UT NUNC EST.
How strange, (said once a philosophic Greek,)
How strange absurdities does man display!
He weeps, to know his life may end next week!—
He laughs,—altho' it may not last a day!
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