Death & Dying
Book VII, 496
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Lofty Gerania, evil cliff, would that from the far Scythian land thou didst look down on the Danube and the long course of the Tanais, and didst not dwell near the waves of the Scironian sea and by the ravines of snowy Methurias. Now he is in the sea, a cold corpse, and the empty tomb here laments his unhappy voyage.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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