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Book X, Epigram 63 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
A marble, O traveller, you read small in truth, but one that shall not give place to the stones of Mausolus and of the Pyramids. Twice was my life approved at Roman Tarentos, and ere my pyre at last was lit it forfeited no virtue. Five sons, as many dau"-hters Juno gave me; the hands of all closed my eyes. And rare honour fell to my wedded lot: one spouse alone was all that my pure life knew.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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