Time & Brevity
Book X, 58
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Time & Brevity
Naked I alighted on the earth and naked shall I go beneath it. Why do I toil in vain, seeing the end is nakedness ?
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