Death & Dying
Book VII, 725
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
A. “Menecrares of Aenus, you too were not long on earth. Tell me, best of friends, what caused your death? Was it that which caused the Centaur’s?” B. “The fore-ordained sleep came to me, and the unhappy wine is blamed.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Book VII, 725.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/46/.
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