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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.

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Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 2 mentions

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