Death & Dying
Book VII, 371
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Earth was my mother’s name, and earth too covers me now I am dead. No worse is this earth than the other: in this I shall lie for long, but from my mother the violent heat of the sun snatched me away and in a strange earth I lie under a stone, Inachus, the much bewept and the obedient servant of Crinagoras.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Book VII, 371.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/13/.
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