“Whom the gods love dies young.”

—  Menander

[Epigramatic] Sentences, 425
He whom the gods love dies young.
The Double Deceiver, frag. 4.
Variant: ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν, ἀποθνῄσκει νέος.
Source: Menander: The Plays and Fragments

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ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος

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Athenian playwright of New Comedy -342–-291 BC

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