Death & Dying
Book VII, 589
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Bear not the message, traveller, to Antioch, lest again the streamlets of Castalia lament, because of a sudden at the age of seventeen Eustorgius left the Muse and his unfulfilled hope of learning in Roman Law, and to empty dust was changed the bloom of his youth. He lies in the tomb and instead of him we see his name and the colours of the brush.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Scholasticus, Agathias. “Book VII, 589.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/agathias/50/.
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