Death & Dying
Book VII, 434
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Demaenera sent eight sons to encounter the phalanx of the foes, and she buried them all beneath one stone. No tear did she shed in her mourning, but said this only: “Ho! Sparta, I bore these children for thee.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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