Death & Dying
Book VII, 535
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
No longer do I, goat-footed Pan, desire to dwell among the goats or on the hill-tops. What pleasure, what delight have I in mountains? Daphnis is dead, Daphnis who begot a fire in my heart. Here in the city will I dwell; let some one else set forth to hunt the wild beasts; Pan no longer loves his old life.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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