Death & Dying
Book VII, 748
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
What one-eyed Cyclops built all this vast stone mound of Assyrian Semiramis, or what giants, sons of earth, raised it to reach near to the seven Pleiads, inflexible, unshakable, a mass weighing on the broad earth like to the peak of Athos? Ever blessed people, who to the citizens of Heraclea . . .
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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