Death & Dying
Book IX, 426
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Where is Cypris, the keeper of the city, that she may see her who was once the seat of the Graces become the dwelling-place of spectres? The city is the tomb of dead men who had no funeral ; under her ashes we, Beroe’s many thousands, rest. Engrave on one stone above her, ye dear survivors: “Berytus the lamented lies low on the ground.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Barbocallus, Johannes. “Book IX, 426.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johannes-barbocallus/4/.
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