ON THE GRAVE OF AN ATHENIAN AT MEROE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Straight is the descent to Hades, whether thou wert to go from Athens
or takest thy journey from Meroe; let it not vex thee to have died so
far away from home; from all lands the wind that blows to Hades is but
one.


XV
ON THE GRAVE OF AN ATHENIAN WOMAN AT CYZICUS
ERYCIUS

I am an Athenian woman; for that was my city; but from Athens the
wasting war-god of the Italians plundered me long ago and made a Roman
citizen; and now that I am dead, seagirt Cyzicus wraps my bones. Fare
thou well, O land that nurturedst me, and thou that thereafter didst
hold me, and thou that at last hast taken me to thy breast.


XVI
ON A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
PLATO

I am the tomb of one shipwrecked; and that opposite me, of a
husbandman; for a common Hades lies beneath sea and earth.


XVII
ON THE SAME