Death & Dying
Book VII, 635
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Hierocles’ boat grew old with him, always travelled with him, and accompanied him in life and in death. It was his faithful fishing partner, and no juster boat ever sailed the waves. It laboured to keep him until his old age, and then it buried him when he was dead, and travelled with him to Hades.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Book VII, 635.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/17/.
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