Death & Dying
Book IX, 309
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
As Gorgo was lighting the coals on her hearth in winter, the fearful noise of the thunder terrified the old woman. Chill seized her lungs and she dropped dead. So then she had been spared with Eld on the one side and Death on the other, either ready to take her on any pretext.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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