Alcestis

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θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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Ἄλκηστις, -ιδος, ἡ, or say, daughter of Pelias.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Alcestis: is, or Alcestē, ēs, f., = Ἄλκηστις or Ἀλκήστη,
I daughter of Pelias, and wife of Admetus, king of Pherœ, for the preservation of whose life she resigned her own, but was afterwards brought back from the lower world by Hercules, and restored to her husband, v. Hyg. Fab. 51 and 251; Mart. 4, 75; Juv. 6, 652.—Also, a play of Nœvius, Gell. 19, 7.

Latin > German (Georges)

Alcēstis, tidis, Akk. tim u. tin, f., u. Alcēstē, ēs, f. (Ἀλκηστις od. Ἀλκήστη), die Tochter des Pelias, Gemahlin des Admetus, Herrschers von Pherä, die das Leben ihres Gatten durch freiwilligen Tod von den Parzen erkaufte, ihm aber von der Proserpina zurückgesandt oder, nach einer andern Sage, von Herkules dem Hades wieder abgekämpft wurde, Hyg. fab. 50 u. 51 (Akk. tim). Mart. 4, 75, 6 (Akk. -tin). Iuven. 6, 653 (Akk. -tim). Macr. sat. 5, 19, 4 (Genet. -tidis). Vgl. Admetus no. I. – Ihre Schicksale als Gegenstand der Darstellung in der griech. u. röm. Tragödie, ignoravit Euripidis nobilissimam fabulam Alcestim, Macr. sat. 5, 19, 3: legi Laevii Alcestin, Gell. 19, 7, 2.