Death & Dying
Book VII, 237
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Carve on my tomb the mountains and the sea, and midmost of both the sun as witness; yea, and the deep currents of the ever-flowing rivers, whose streams sufficed not for Xerxes’ host of the thousand ships. Carve Salamis too, here where the Magnesian people proclaim the tomb of dead Themistocles.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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