Martial, Epigrams 6.70.12-15

 

“Marcianus, the one who thinks that

the life of Priam and Nestor was long

is very much mistaken and fooled.

Not mere existence, but health, is life.”

 

Aetatem Priamique Nestorisque
longam qui putat esse, Marciane,
multum decipiturque falliturque.
Non est uiuere, sed ualere uita est.

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