Death & Dying
Book IX, 302
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Bees, ye savage pack, ye killed baby Hermonax as he was creeping to your hive in quest of honey. Often had he been fed by you, and now, alas! ye have stung him to death. If we speak evil of serpents’ nests, learn from Lysidice and Amyntor not to praise hives either. They, too, have in them bitter honey.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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