Death & Dying
Book VII, 225
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Time wears stone away and spares not iron, but with one sickle destroys all things that are. So this grave-mound of Laertes that is near the shore is being melted away by the cold rain. But the hero’s name is ever young, for Time cannot, even if he will, make poesy dim.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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