Death & Dying
Book VII, 645
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
O Philostratus, unhappy for all thy wealth, where are those sceptres and constant intercourse with princes on which thy fortune ever depended? Shall thy tomb be (?) by the Nile conspicuous in the region of . . .? Foreigners have shared among them the fruit of thy toil, and thy corpse shall lie in sandy Ostracine.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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