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“About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Consolation to Apollonius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7f695bcc54fd310ced8b3620f50cfabcb526a37ca2b4584c7306b08841a48bcd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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