Death & Dying
Book VII, 380
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Though the monument be of Parian marble, and polished by the mason’s straight rule, itis not a good man’s. Do not, good sir, estimate the dead by the stone. The stone is senseless and can cover a foul black corpse as well as any other. Here lies that weak rag the body of Eunicides and rots under the ashes.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Book VII, 380.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/15/.
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