Death & Dying
Book VII, 569
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Yea, I pray thee, traveller, tell my dear husband, when thou seest my country Thessaly, “Thy wife is dead and rests in her tomb, alas, near the shore of the Bosporus. But build me at home a cenotaph near thee, so that thou mayest be reminded of her who was once thy spouse.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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