Death & Dying
Book VII, 604
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Maiden, thy parents with sorrowing hands made thy funeral, not thy wedding bed. The errors of life and the labour of childbed thou hast escaped, but a bitter cloud of mourning sits on them. For Fate hath hidden thee, Macedonia, aged but twelve, young in beauty, old in behaviour.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book VII, 604.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/56/.
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