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Stephanus 40e
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ἂν εὑρεῖν αὐτὸν ταύτας πρὸς τὰς ἄλλας ἡμέρας καὶ νύκτας—εἰ οὖν τοιοῦτον ὁ θάνατός ἐστιν, κέρδος ἔγωγε λέγω· καὶ γὰρ οὐδὲν πλείων ὁ πᾶς χρόνος φαίνεται οὕτω δὴ εἶναι ἢ μία νύξ. εἰ δʼ αὖ οἷον ἀποδημῆσαί ἐστιν ὁ θάνατος ἐνθένδε εἰς ἄλλον τόπον, καὶ ἀληθῆ ἐστιν τὰ λεγόμενα, ὡς ἄρα ἐκεῖ εἰσι πάντες οἱ τεθνεῶτες, τί μεῖζον ἀγαθὸν τούτου εἴη ἄν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί; εἰ γάρ τις
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in comparison with all the other days and nights. If death is like that, then I call it a gain; for in that case the whole of time appears to be no more than a single night. But if death is instead like a journey from here to another place, and the stories are true that all the dead are there, what greater good could there be than this, gentlemen of the jury? For if a man,
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in comparison with all the others. So if death is like that, I call it a gain, because all of time appears in this way to be no more than a single night. But if death is like traveling from here to another place, and the things people say are true—that all the dead are there—what greater good could there be than that, gentlemen of the jury? For if someone