Death & Dying
Book VII, 648
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Good Aristocrates, as he was taking ship for Acheron, resting his doomed head on his hand, said: “Let every man seek to have children and get him a wife, even if miserable poverty pinch him. Let him support his life with pillars; a house without pillars is ill to look on. Nay what is best, may the room where his hearth is have many fair columns, and shining with the luxury of many lights, illumine the log that burns on the hearth.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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