Death & Dying
Book VII, Epigram 40 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Here lies that aged sire, famed in the Augustan hall as bearing with no abject soul our God in either mood; his sons' love has joined him to his wife's hallowed shade: Elysium's grove holds them both. She died the first, robbed of her fresh youth; he lived well-nigh thrice six Olympiads. Yet whoever has seen thy tears, Etruscus, accounts him snatched away from thee too swiftly.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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