Death & Dying
Book VII, 674
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
This is the tomb of Archilochus, whom the Muse, out of kindness to Homer, guided to furious iambics.
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