Death & Dying
Book XV, 6: On the Same
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
It was built for the great Sacerdos, this great and all-resplendent tomb, the terrestrial star of Lake Ascania, flashing back the rays of the sun, and within it lies in peace the spirit, who both stretched out his right hand to his fallen country and bound about his brows the holy crown that, received from the father, bloomed again for the son; him whose dear corpse his country received, whom Attica purified by fire, and whom every city of Greece venerates.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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