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Here are two more--from Kenneth Rexroth's translations. The first is the Palladas again:

Let this life of worry
pass by in silence, as
silent as Time itself.
Live unknown, and so die.

The second is by Glykon:

Nothing but laughter, nothing
but dust, nothing but nothing,
no reason why it happens.
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