Living
Book X, 69
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Why fear death, the mother of rest, death that puts an end to sickness and the pains of poverty? It happens but once to mortals, and no man ever saw it come twice. But diseases are many and various, coming first to this man, then to that, and ever changing.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Scholasticus, Agathias. “Book X, 69.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/agathias/81/.
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