Death & Dying
Book VII, 564
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Here on a time the earth opened to receive Laodice, not duly laid to rest, but flying from the violence of the enemy. Unreckonable Time having effaced the monument, Maximus the Proconsul of Asia brought it again to light, and having noticed the girl’s bronze statue lying elsewhere unhonoured, he set it up on this circular barrow.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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