Death & Dying
Book VII, 284
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Keep off from me, thou fierce sea, eight cubits’ space and swell and roar with all thy might. But if thou dost destroy the tomb of Eumares, naught shall it profit thee, for naught shalt thou find but bones and ashes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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