Death & Dying
Book VII, 389
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Who is there that has not suffered the extremity of woe, weeping fora son? But the house of Posidippus buried all four, taken from him in four days by death, that cut short all his hopes of them. The father’s mourning eyes drenched with tears have lost their sight, and one may say that a common night now holds them all.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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