Death & Dying
Book VII, 731
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
“I am already supported only ona stick, like a vine on a stake; Death calls me to Hades. Stop not thy ears, Gorgus. What further pleasure hast thou in basking in the sun yet for three or four summers?” So speaking in no braggart strain the old man cast away his life and settled in the abode of the greater number.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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