Death & Dying
Book VII, 4: On the Same
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Here the famous tomb on the rock by the sea holdeth divine Homer, the skilled mouth by which the Muses spoke. Wonder not, O stranger, as thou lookest, if so little an island can contain so great a man. For my sister Delos, while she wandered yet on the waves, received Apollo from his mother’s womb.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book VII, 4: On the Same.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/51/.
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