Living
Book IX, 269
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
When the ship was dashed to pieces two men strove with each other in the water, quarrelling for one plank. Antagoras struck Pisistratus. It was not inexcusable, for his life was at stake, but Justice was concerned. The one swam on, but the other was seized by a shark. She, the all-avenger, does not cease from vengeance even in the watery deep.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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