Death & Dying
Book VII, 629
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Dost thou who art so great rest in so shallow a soil? He who looks at thee, Socrates, must blame the unwisdom of the Greeks. Merciless judges who slew the best of men, nor shamed them one jot. Such often are the Athenians.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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