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Book IX, 292
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
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Aristion was burning the corpse of one son when she heard the other was shipwrecked. A double grief consumed a single heart. Alas! Fate divided this mother in two, since she gave one child to fire and the other to cruel water.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Honestus. “Book IX, 292.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/honestus/6/.
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Honestus. “Book IX, 292.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/honestus/6/.
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