Religion
Book VI, 348
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
These mournful lines from the skilled pen of Diodorus tell that this tomb was carved for one who died before her time in child-birth, in bearing a boy. I mourn her whom I received, blooming Athenais the daughter of Mela, who left sorrow to the ladies of Lesbos and to her father Jason. But thou hadst no care, then, Artemis, but for thy hounds deadly to beasts.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Ascribed to Diodorus.
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