Death & Dying
Book VII, 40: On the Same
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
This tombstone says that Aeschylus the great lies here, far from his own Attica, by the white waters of Sicilian Gelas. What spiteful grudge against the good is this, alas, that ever besets the sons of Theseus?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sardis, Diodorus of. “Book VII, 40: On the Same.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/diodorus-sardis/1/.
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