Death & Dying
Book IX, 409
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
If there be one who does not take delight in the strains of the flute and the sweet sound of harp-playing, or in nectareous wine, oldest of the old, or in torches, revels, garlands, and scent, but who takes a frugal supper and stores up with greedy hands the fruits of stealthy-footed usury, to me he is dead, and I pass by the... corpse, who hoards for the weasands of others.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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