Death & Dying
Book IX, 67
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Death & Dying
The boy was crowning his stepmother’s funeral stele, a tall column, thinking that in changing life for death she had changed her character. But it came down on the tomb and killed him. Stepsons, avoid even the tomb of your stepmother.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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