"O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly."
— Mortality

January 1, 1970

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Callimachus, translation by Macnail in Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology. See also Callimachus, Epigrams, XIV, line 3. Anthologia Palatina, VII. 524.