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Epinicians (5.151-5.161)

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of Pleuron. And my sweet soul diminished; I knew that my strength was gone, aiai! I breathed my last breath in tears, as I left behind splendid youth.
They say that was the only time that the son of Amphitryon, fearless in battle, ever wetted his eyes with tears, pitying the fate of the man who endured grief. And he answered him in this way:
For mortals it is best never to be born,
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never to look on the light of the sun. But there is no profit in lamenting this; one must speak of what can be accomplished.

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