Death & Dying
Book VII, 205
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Does the house-cat, after eating my partridge, expect to live in my halls? No dear partridge, I will not leave thee unhonoured in death, but on thy body I will slay thy foe. For thy spirit grows ever more perturbed until I perform the rites that Pyrrhus executed on the tomb of Achilles.’
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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