Death & Dying
Book VII, 405
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Avoid, O stranger, this terrible tomb of Hipponax, which hails forth verses, Hipponax whose very ashes ery in iambics his hatred of Bupalus, lest thou wake the sleeping wasp, who not even in Hades has lulled his spite to rest, but in a halting measure launcheth straight shafts of song.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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