Death & Dying
Book VII, 701
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
His dear city set up this inscription by the beautiful waters of Ascania to the strong man Achaeus. Nicaea wept for him, and his father Diomedes erected to him this tall and glittering stone monument, lamenting; for it had been meeter for his son to pay him these honours when he died himself.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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