Martial: Quotes about death

Martial was Latin poet from Hispania. Explore interesting quotes on death.
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“The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”

Martial book Epigrammata

XI, 91.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

Death

“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”

Martial book Epigrammata

X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or short permit to heaven", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book xi, line 553.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

Death , Fear

“If glory comes after death, I hurry not.”
Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.

Martial book Epigrammata

V, 10 (trans. Zachariah Rush).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

Death