Underworld HWSM 01 028

2021-12-01T00:00:00Z

Underworld MENIPPUS Was it not a pleasure merely to live and see the light? CHIRON No; it is variety, as I take it, and not monotony, that constitutes pleasure. Living on and on, everything always the same; sun, light, food, spring, summer, autumn, winter, one thing following another in unending sequence,—I sickened of it all. I found that enjoyment lay not in continual possession; that deprivation had its share therein. (p. 148) Lucian. Dialogues of the Dead . circa 2nd century CE. In The Works of Lucian of Samosata . H.W. Fowler and F G. Oxford (trans.), The Clarendon Press, 1905. https://archive.org/details/worksoflucianofs01luci/page/n3/mode/2up