A thing I am not anxious to preserve Is this frail life; for soon as one woe ends, Others commence, and our weak eyes discern not What evil fortunes yet remain behind. [αἰεὶ τὸ µὲν ζῇ, τὸ δὲ µεθίσταται κακόν, τὸ δ' αὖ πέφηνεν αὖθις ἐξ ἀρχῆς νέον.] Nauck frag.…