Death & Dying
Book IX, 488
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Death & Dying
Terpes, harping beautifully at the Carneian feast of tabernacles, died... among the Lacedaemonians, not wounded by a sword or a missile, but by a fig on the lips. Alas! Death is never at a loss for occasions.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Tryphon. “Book IX, 488.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tryphon/0/.
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Tryphon. “Book IX, 488.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tryphon/0/.