according to Bentley and Heyne, its source is Pythagorean. The language is graphic and unmistakable.

?e? t??es?a? p?? ?��?t?? t?? ?a???? t??t??, ?? ? ????eta? t? t???? ???st? t?? ?pa??a?? t?? ???. ??s? ??? ?�p?pte? �eta�??e?a t??? �?????s? te?e?t??, �e�??�????? ?? ?d????as?, ?a? ??�? t?? �???es?a? p??ta pep????a? d??a??? a?t???.

Transalation: He shall not be put to death in the time of death, when the end of the discharge thereof shall be made. This has been the last of the last, remembered in the past, and it is always true that it has always been done.

Furthermore, to come to an historical personage, we find Pericles, on his death-bed, unwilling to hear anything about his great achievements, and only anxious to know that he had never brought trouble on a citizen.