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Book IX, 243
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The parents of Aristippus both rejoiced and wept for their son, and one day saw both his good and evil fate. When he had escaped from the burning house, straightway Zeus launched at his head the all-powerful flame of his thunderbolt. Then those who bewailed the dead spoke this word: “Unhappy boy, reserved by Fate for the fire of Heaven!”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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