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Book IX, 61
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The Spartan woman, seeing her son hastening home in flight from the war and stripped of his armour, rushed to meet him, and driving a spear through his liver, uttered over the slain these words full of virile spirit: “Away with thee to Hades, alien scion of Sparta! Away with thee, since thou wast false to thy country and thy father!”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “Book IX, 61.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/403/.
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