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Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.
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Epigram 10; translation from J. Banks (ed.) The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856) p. 194.

 

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