Death & Dying

Book IX, 422

by Apollonides 1st century AD (Paton’s date)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)

Death & Dying

“By our children,” she said, “I implore thee, if thou layest me out dead, enter not a second time into the loving bond of wedlock.” She spoke, but he hastened to take another wife. Yet Philinna, even dead, punished Diogenes for forgetting her. For on the first night the wrath from which there is no escape laid their chamber in ruins, so that the sun never shone on his second marriage.

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