Death & Dying
Book XV, 7: On the Same
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
My country was Nicaea, my father the hierophant of heaven, and I the inheritor of the holy rite. I am he who also saved from hell, by the generosity of Roman Zeus, my country cast down by earthquake. I died far away from Ascania, and in the Attic land, the mother of my race, I mounted on the pyre. My son, who bears his grandsire’s name, designed this magnificent monument for me, and virtue looks on both.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “Book XV, 7: On the Same.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/922/.
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