Death & Dying
Book VII, 386
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Here am I, Niobe, as many times a stone (sic) as I was a mother; so unhappy was J that the milk in my breast grew hard. Great wealth for Hades was the number of my children—to Hades for whom I brought them forth. Oh relics of that great pyre!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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