On an Unhappy Man

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Introduction

CHAPTER III
Epitaphs

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LXI
ON AN UNHAPPY MAN
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

I Dionysius of Tarsus lie here at sixty, having never married; and would that my father had not.

LXII
ON A CRETAN MERCHANT
SIMONIDES

I Brotachus of Gortyna, a Cretan, lie here, not having come hither for this, but for traffic.

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LXIII
ON SAON OF ACANTHUS
CALLIMACHUS

Here Saon, son of Dicon of Acanthus, rests in a holy sleep; say not that the good die.

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