Death & Dying
Book VII, 662
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
The girl is gone to Hades before her time in her seventh year, before all her many playmates, hapless child, longing for her little brother, who twenty months old tasted of loveless death. Alas Peristera for thy sad fate! How hath Heaven decreed that the very path of men should be sown with calamities!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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