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Cresphontes (Euripides)
the Cresphontes
also: Cresphonte, Cresphontes
A lost tragedy of Euripides, source of the celebrated choral lines that men should mourn at a birth and rejoice at a death that ends life's labors. Cicero quotes them in Latin to support his theme that death is no evil.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.115 This sentiment Euripides used in his \textit{Cresphontes}
From Euripides's lost tragedy Cresphontes: men ought to mourn at a birth and rejoice at a death that ends life's labors. Cicero quotes it (and a parallel from Crantor) to reinforce the Silenus-sentiment that death is no evil.