Death & Dying
Book VII, 229
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Dead on his shield to Pitana came Thrasybulus, having received seven wounds from the Argives, exposing his whole front to them; and old Tynnichus, as he laid his son’s blood-stained body on the pyre, said “Let cowards weep, but I will bury thee, my son, without a tear, thee who art both mine and pe ee) Sparta’s.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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