“There is a story that while Sokrates was in prison, awaiting his death, he heard a man sing skillfully a song by the lyric poet Stesichoros, and begged him to teach it to him before it was too late, and when the musician asked why, Sokrates replied, 'I want to die knowing one thing more.”
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Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus, born in 320 and died in 390, was an ancient Roman historian. His major work, 'The History of the Roman Empire', is an important source for studying the history of the Roman Empire from the 3rd to the 4th century. more
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