Meditations VII.51

Again: With meats and drinks and curious sorceries Side-track the stream, so be they may not die.⁶⁶ When a storm from the Gods beats down on our bark, At our oars then we needs must toil and complain not.⁶⁷

• 66.Euripides, Suppliants 1110.

  In Euripides’ Suppliants, the lines are spoken by Iphis, an old man mourning his son and his daughter, on those who try to prolong their lives.

• 67.Unknown.