The Letter to Idomeneus

This translation is by Cyril Bailey from his book "Epicurus, The Extant Remains." Please post comments and questions at this link.

On this blissful day, which is also the last of my life, I write this to you. My continual sufferings from strangury and dysentery are so great that nothing could increase them; but I set above them all the gladness of mind at the memory of our past conversations. But I would have you, as becomes your lifelong attitude to me and to philosophy, watch over the children of Metrodorus.