Death of Epicurus
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Epicurus's death · the last day of our life
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The death of Epicurus as narrated in his own letter to Hermarchus
Hear — not to go far afield — what Epicurus says as he is dying, that you may understand how his deeds differ from his words:
And Leonidas, king of the Lacedaemonians, set himself and those three hundred whom he had led out from Sparta against the enemy at Thermopylae, when there was offered him either base flight or glorious death.
Vitae philosophorum
The death of Epicurus from renal calculus, narrated in detail including his final bath and last words.
Epicurus died of renal calculus after an illness which lasted a fortnight:
Thus Epicurus spake, and breathed his last.