Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 82 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Philostratus, returning from a party at the baths of Sinuessa to his hired house at the bidding of night, nearly copied Elpenor, and died by a cruel death while he was hurrying headlong down a long flight of steps. He would not have incurred such great danger, ye Nymphs, if he had drunk your waters instead.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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