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Life After Death
by:
Callimachus
(c. 310-240 B.C.)
translated by H. W. Tytler
Cleombrotus, high on a rock,
Above Ambracia stood,
Bade Sol adieu, and, as he spoke,
Plung'd headlong in the flood.
From no mischance the leap he took,
But fought the realms beneath,
Because he read in Plato's book,
That souls live after death.
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