Death & Dying
Book VII, 670
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Or old among the living thou didst shine the Star of morn; now shinest thou in death the Star of eve.
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