<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg038.perseus-eng4" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg038.perseus-eng4:" n="34"><p>Another of Rutilianus’s questions was, Whose soul he had succeeded to, and the answer:

<l>First thou wast Peleus’ son, and next Menander;</l>
<l>Then thine own self; next, a sunbeam shalt be;</l>
<l>And nine score annual rounds thy life shall measure.</l>

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At seventy, he died of melancholy, not waiting for the God to pay in full.

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