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He was originally a Samian, but in the colonisation of
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Semonides lived in the late sixth century on the basis of what he perceives as modish (relatively speaking) thought in a passage of Semonides fr.
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are classed, and reflect a similarly pessimistic view of the human experience. There is also evidence that
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7.51–2 some have refined the chronology further, arguing that
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