Death & Dying
Book VII, 230
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Demetrius, when thy mother received thee after thy flight from the battle, all thy fine arms lost, herself she straightway drove the death-dealing spear through thy sturdy side, and said ‘‘Die and let Sparta bear no blame; it was no fault of hers if my milk reared cowards.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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