Death & Dying
Book VII, 167
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Call me Polyxena the wife of Archelaus, daughter of Theodectes and ill-fated Demarete, a mother too in so far at least as I bore a child; for Fate overtook my babe ere it was twenty days old, and I died at eighteen, for a brief time a mother, for a brief time a bride—in all short-lived.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Attribution doubtful in Paton (Dioscorides or Hecataeus of Thasos).
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