John Conington: Quotes about death

John Conington was British classical scholar. Explore interesting quotes on death.

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“Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 55

“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”

Book III, ode i
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails
The lapse of gliding years to stay,
With wrinkled age it nought avails
Nor conjures conquering Death away.”

Book II, ode xiv
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“In vain she strives with dying hands
To wrench away the blade:
Fixed in her ribs the weapon stands,
Closed by the wound it made.
Bloodless and faint, she gasps for breath;
Her heavy eyes sink down in death;
Her cheek's bright colors fade.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XI, p. 427

“A lethargy of sleep,
Most like to death, so calm, so deep.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 209

“At Orcus' portals hold their lair
Wild Sorrow and avenging Care;
And pale Diseases cluster there,
And pleasureless Decay
Foul Penury, and Fears that kill,
And Hunger, counsellor of ill,
A ghastly presence they:
Suffering and Death the threshold keep,
And with them Death's blood-brother, Sleep.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 197

“Tis come, our fated day of death.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53