Death & Dying
Book VII, 422
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
What shall we conjecture about you, Pisistratus, when we see a Chian die carved on your tomb?? Shall we not say that you were a Chian? That seems probable. Or shall we say that you were a gamester and not a particularly lucky one, my friend? Or are we still far from the truth, and was your life’s light put out by Chian wine? Yes, I think now we are near it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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