Death & Dying
Book VII, 633
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
The moon herself, rising at early eve, dimmed her light, veiling her mourning in night, because she saw her namesake, pretty Selene, going down dead to murky Hades, On her she had bestowed the beauty of her light, and with her death she mingled her own darkness.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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