Death & Dying
Book VII, 181
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Sore pitied, dear Democrateia, didst thou go to the dark house of Acheron, leaving thy mother to lament. And she, when thou wast dead, shore the grey hairs from her old head with the newly-sharpened steel.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Andronicus. “Book VII, 181.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/andronicus/0/.
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Andronicus. “Book VII, 181.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/andronicus/0/.