The bigness of a dot
Leonidas, Greek Anthology VII, 472
Infinite, O man, was the time until you came to light, and
infinite is what remains after death: what share is left for life
but the bigness of a dot, and tinier than a dot if such
there be? Little is your life and afflicted; for not even so it is
sweet, but more loathed than hateful death.
[lang_it]Leonida di Taranto vive tra il 320 e il 260 a.C. L'immagine della vita dell'uomo come un punto di fronte all'immensità del tempo verrà ripresa da Seneca (Epistole XLIX, 9).Leonidas of Tarentum lived between 320 and 260 B.C. The image of man's life as big as a dot, compared with the immensity of time, was be taken up by Seneca (Epistulae XLIX, 9).
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