Death & Dying
Book VII, 503
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
A. “O stone standing a burden on the ancient beach, tell me whom thou holdest, whose son and whence.” B. “Phinto the son of Bathycles of Hermione, who perished in the heavy sea, encountering the blast of Arcturus.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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