Death & Dying
Book VII, 182
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
No husband but Death did Clearista receive on her bridal night as she loosed her maiden zone, But now at eve the flutes were making music at the door of the bride, the portals of her chamber echoed to knocking hands. And at morn the death wail was loud, the bridal song was hushed and changed to a voice of wailing. The same torches that flamed round her marriage bed lighted her dead on her downward way to Hades.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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