Death & Dying
Book VII, 109
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Phoebus generated for mortals both Asclepius and Plato, the one to save the body, the other the soul, After celebrating a marriage he went to the city which he had founded for himself and was established in the house of Zeus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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