Death & Dying
Book VII, 709
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Ancient Sardis, home of my fathers, had I been reared in thee I would have been a cernus-bearer or eunuch, wearing ornaments of gold and beating pretty tambourines; but now my name is Aleman, and I am a citizen of Sparta of the many tripods, and have learnt to know the Heliconian Muses who made me greater than the tyrants Dascyles and Gyges.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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