Death & Dying
On Paula of Tarentum (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Bear witness this my stone house of night that has hidden me, and the wail-circled water of Cocytus, my husband did not, as men say, kill me, looking eagerly to marriage with another; why should Rufinius have an ill name idly? but my predestined Fates lead me away; not surely is Paula of Tarentum the only one who has died before her day.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sardis, Diodorus of. “On Paula of Tarentum (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/diodorus-sardis/13/.
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Sardis, Diodorus of. “On Paula of Tarentum (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/diodorus-sardis/13/.
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