History & Politics
Book XIII, 26
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
I will tell of her; for it is not meet that she should lie here without a name, the noble wife of Archenautes, Xanthippe, granddaughter of Periander, him who once ruled over the people, holding the lordship of high-towered Corinth.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘The same tetrameter followed by an imperfect trimeter’.
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