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[231] These lines, too, spring from the same sentiment:
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Not to have been begotten at all were the best thing for
mortals,
Nor to have lookèd upon fiery rays of the sun:
Or, if begotten, to hasten amain to the portals of Hades,
And to lie unmoved robèd in masses of earth. We know, too, the facts about Cleobis and Biton which Herodotus
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relates in his story of the Argive priestess.
Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.
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