Death & Dying
Book VII, 166
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
In Africa on the banks of the Nile resteth with her twin babes Lamisca of Samos the twenty year old daughter of Nicarete and Eupolis, who breathed her last in the bitter pangs of labour. Bring to the girl, ye maidens, such gifts as ye give to one newly delivered, and shed warm tears upon her cold tomb.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Attribution doubtful in Paton (Dioscorides or Nicarchus).
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