The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: With Epicurus all his followers,
Who with the body make the spirit die";
but which is advantageously avoided by Mr. Wright,--
"Here Epicurus hath his fiery tomb,
And with him all his followers, who maintain
That soul and body share one common doom";
and is still better rendered by Dr. Parsons,--
"Here in their cemetery on this side,
With his whole sect, is Epicurus pent,
Who thought the spirit with its body died."[39]
[39] "Suo cimitero da questa parte hanno
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