Death & Dying
Book VII, 303
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
When little Cleodemus, still living on milk, set his foot outside the edge of the ship, the truly Thracian? Boreas cast him into the swelling sea, and the waves put out the light of the baby’s life. Ino, thou art a goddess who knowest not pity, since thou didst not avert bitter death from this child of the same age as thy Melicertes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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