Death & Dying
Book VII, 335
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
A. “Pollita, support thy grief and still thy tears; many mothers have seen their sons dead.” B. “But not such as he was in character and life, not so reverencing their mother’s dearest face.” A. “Why mourn in vain, why this idle lamentation? All men shall come to Hades.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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