After all, what difference does it make what it is that a person is subject to and dependent on? If you mourn the loss of a gymnasium or some such haunt, with its shady colonnades and youthful companions, are you any better than a man who sheds tears over a girlfriend? Someone else is upset because he won’t in the future be drinking water from Dirce’s Spring—but is the water of the Marcian aqueduct worse than Dirce’s?
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