Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 67 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Pyrrha's daughter, Nestor's step-mother, one whom Niobe, when a girl, saw as an old crone, old Laertes called his grandmotlier, Priam his nurse, Thyestes his mother-in-law, Plotia, having now outlived all the crows,- is laid in this tomb at last, and by the side of bald Melanthion — itches with lust.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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