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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

Greek Monolingual

εὐπόρφυρος, -ον (Α)
αυτός που έχει λαμπρό πορφυρό χρώμα.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ευ + -πορφυρος (< πορφύρα), πρβλ. αλι-πόρφυρος.