Death & Dying

Book VII, 240

by Adaeus of Mitylene 1st century AD (Paton’s date)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)

Death & Dying

If one would sing of the tomb of Alexander of Macedon, let him say that both continents are his monument.

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