Arts & Sciences
Book XIII, 4
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Arts & Sciences
I pity thee, Aristoclides, first among all my valiant friends. Thou didst lose thy young life, defending thy country from enslavement.
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Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Trochaic tetrameters’.
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