Death & Dying
Book VII, 418
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
My first country was famous Gadara; then Tyre received me and brought me up to manhood. When I reached old age, Cos, which nurtured Zeus, made me one of her Meropian citizens and cared for my declining years. But the Muses adorned me, Meleager, son of Eucrates, more than most men with the Graces of Menippus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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