History & Politics
Book IX, 279
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
History & Politics
When, for the second time, Hades received from the bark of Lethe three hundred dead, all slain in war, he said: “The company is Spartan; see how all their wounds are in front again, and war dwells in their breasts alone. Now, people of unvanquished Ares, hunger no more for battle, but rest in my sleep.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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