Death & Dying
Book VII, 632
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
A little child in Diodorus’ house fell from a little ladder, but falling head first broke the vertebra of its neck, to break which is fatal. But when it saw its revered master running up, it at once stretched out its baby arms to him. Earth, never lie heavy on the bones of the little slave child, but be kind to two-year-old Corax.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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