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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

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

petrītes: ae, m., = πετρίτης (οἶνος>),
I a kind of wine, perh. from the city of Petra, in Arabia, Plin. 14, 7, 9, § 75.