XIX THE SHADOW OF DEATH AUTHOR UNKNOWN Those who have left the sweet light I bewail no longer, but those who live ever in expectation of death. XX PARTA QUIES PALLADAS Expectation of death is woful grief, and this is the gain of a mortal when he perishes; weep not then for him who departs from life, for after death there is no other accident. XXI THE CLOSED ACCOUNT PHILETAS I weep not for thee, O dearest of friends; for thou knewest many fair things; and again God dealt thee thy lot of ill. XXII THE VOYAGE OF LIFE PALLADAS Life is a dangerous voyage; for tempest-tossed in it we often strike rocks more pitiably than shipwrecked men; and having Chance as pilot of life, we sail doubtfully as on the sea, some on a fair voyage, and others contrariwise; yet all alike we put into the one anchorage under earth. XXIII DAILY BIRTH PALLADAS Day by day we are born as night retires, no more possessing aught of our former life, estranged from our course of yesterday, and beginning to-day the life that remains. Do not then call thyself, old man, abundant in years; for to-day thou hast no share in what is gone. XXIV THE LIMIT OF VISION AUTHOR UNKNOWN Now we flourish as before others did, and soon others will, whose children we shall never see. XXV THE BREATH OF LIFE PALLADAS Breathing thin air into our nostrils we live and look on the torch of the sun, all we who live what is called life; and are as organs, receiving our spirits from quickening airs. If one then chokes that little breath with his hand, he robs us of life, and brings us down to Hades. Thus being nothing we wax high in hardihood, feeding on air from a little breath. XXVI TWO ETERNITIES LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Infinite, O man, was the foretime until thou camest to thy dawn, and what remains is infinite on through Hades: what share is left for life but the bigness of a pinprick, and tinier than a pinprick if such there be? Little is thy life and afflicted; for not even so it is sweet, but more loathed than hateful death. XXVII THE LORD OF LANDS AMMIANUS