Death & Dying
Book VII, 396
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
These is the tomb of the sons of Oedipus, but the all-destroying tomb feels their still living quarrel. Not even Hades subdued them, and by Acheron they still fight; even their tombs are foes and they dispute still on their funeral pyres. O children much to be pitied, who grasped spears never to be laid to rest.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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