Death & Dying
Book VII, 555
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Looking at my husband, as my life was ebbing away, I praised the infernal gods, and those of wedlock, the former because I left my husband alive, the latter that he was so good a husband. But may their father live to bring up our children.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Barbocallus, Johannes. “Book VII, 555.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johannes-barbocallus/1/.
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