Death & Dying
Book VII, 220
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
On my way to Corinth I saw by the roadside the tomb of Lais of old time, so said the inscription; and shedding a tributary tear, I said “Hail, woman, for from report I pity thee whom I never saw. Ah, how didst thou vex the young men’s minds but look, thou dwellest in Lethe, having laid thy beauty in the earth.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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