Death & Dying
Book VII, 457
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
The tippler Ampelis, already supporting her tottering old age on a guiding staff, was covertly abstracting from the vat the newly pressed juice of Bacchus, and about to fill a cup of Cyclopean size, but before she could draw it out her feeble hand failed her and the old woman, like a ship submerged by the waves, disappeared in the sea of wine. Euterpe erected this stone monument on her tomb near the pressing-floor of the vineyard.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Aristo. “Book VII, 457.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/aristo/0/.
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Aristo. “Book VII, 457.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/aristo/0/.