Death & Dying
Book VII, 18: On Aleman
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Do not judge the man by the stone. Simple is the tomb to look on, but holds the bones of a great man, Thou shalt know Aleman the supreme striker of the Laconian lyre, possessed by the nine Muses. Here resteth he, a cause of dispute to two continents, if he be a Lydian or a Spartan. Minstrels have many mothers.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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