Death & Dying
Book VII, 140: On Hector
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Tell, O column, the parentage of him beneath thee and his name and country and by what death he died. “His father was Priam, his country Ilion, his name Hector, and he perished fighting for his native land.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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