Death & Dying
Book VII, 566
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Earth and Ilithyia, one of you brought me to birth, the other covers me. Farewell! I have run the race of each. I depart, not knowing whither I go, for neither do I know who I was or whose or from whence when I came to you.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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