Death & Dying
Book IX, 150
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
But the wealth of Aristides was one heifer and one fleecy sheep. By their means he kept famine from the door. But he lost both; a wolf killed the sheep and the cow perished in labour. His poor stock was gone, and noosing his neck in the strap of his wallet, the wretched man died close to his cabin, which no longer echoed to the sound of lowing.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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