Death & Dying
Book VII, 178
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
I am a Lydian, yea a Lydian, but thou, master, didst lay me, thy foster-father Timanthes, in a freeman’s grave. Live long and prosper free from calamity, and if stricken in years thou comest to me, I am thine, O master, in Hades too.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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