Death & Dying
Book VII, 446
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
The stranger is Zoilus of Hermione, but he lies buried in a foreign land, clothed in this Argive earth, which his deep-bosomed wife her cheeks bedewed with tears and his children, their hair close cut, heaped on him.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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