Leithart
Book 2 of De rerum natura begins with “It is sweet on the great sea to watch from the shore other people drowning.”
The words were found on a wall on a house in Pompeii. Perhaps someone sweetly watched from a perch opposite Vesuvius as the lava flow swallowed up the town, and that house. Such are the ironies of Epicurean indifference.
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