Death & Dying
Book VII, 370
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Menander of Athens, the son of Diopeithes, the friend of Bacchus and the Muses, rests beneath me, or at least the little dust he shed in the funeral fire. But if thou seekest Menander himself thou shalt find him in the abode of Zeus or in the Islands of the Blest.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sardis, Diodorus of. “Book VII, 370.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/diodorus-sardis/3/.
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