Death & Dying
Book XVI, 29
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
If thou didst ever hear of a certain dear son of Ares, both powerful in bodily strength and bold in fight, think it was none other than Hector, son of Priam, whom once the husband of Diomede slew in combat, as he made war on the Greeks for the land of the Trojans, and whom in death this tomb here covers.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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