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Men
Rather, the men: those tormented.
Shall desire (ἐπιθυμήσουσιν)
Ἑπι has the force of vehemently, earnestly.
Shall flee (φεύξεται)
Read φεύγει fleeth. Aeschylus says: “Not justly do mortals hate death, since it is the greatest deliverance from their many woes” (“Fragment”). Herodotus relates the address of Artabanus to Xerxes, when the latter wept on beholding his vast armament. “There is no man, whether it be here among this multitude or elsewhere, who is so happy as not to have felt the wish - I will not say once, but full many a time - that he were dead rather than alive. Calamities fall upon us, sicknesses vex and harass us, and make life, short though it be, to appear long. So death, through the wretchedness of our life, is a most sweet refuge to our race” (vii., 46).