Social Commentaries
Book XI, 135
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
No longer, Marcus, no longer lament the boy, but me, who am much more dead than that child of yours. Make elegies, hangman, now for me, make dirges for me who am slain by this very death. For all for the sake of that dead child of yours I suffer what I would the inventors of books and pens might suffer.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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