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[12] Denique finem faciam, si hoc unum adiecero, nec infantes nec 1 pueros nec mente lapsos timere mortem et esse turpissimum, si eam securitatem nobis ratio non praestat, ad quam stultitia perducit. VALE.
1 Hense, following Madvig, would delete nec. not concern either the living or the dead; for to the living it has no existence, and the dead do not themselves exist." Lucretius uses this argument, concluding it with (iii. 830): Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum.
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