Social Commentaries
Book XI, 312
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Though there is no one dead here now, O passer-by, Marcus the poet built a tomb here, and writing an inscription of one line as follows, engraved it : “Weep for twelve year old Maximus from Ephesus.” I (says the tomb) never even saw any Maximus, but to show off the poet’s talent I bid the passer-by weep.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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