I am the grave of Biton, O wayfarer; and if leaving Torone thou goest even to Amphipolis, tell Nicagoras that Strymonias at the setting of the Kids lost him his only son.
XXVIII ON POLYANTHUS OF TORONE, LOST AT SEA PHAEDIMUS
I bewail Polyanthus, O thou who passest by, whom Aristagore his wife laid newly-wedded in the grave, having received dust and bones (but him the ill-blown Aegean wave cast away off Sciathus), when at early dawn the fishermen drew his luckless corpse, O stranger, into the harbour of Torone.
XXIX ON A WAYSIDE TOMB NICIAS
Sit beneath the poplars here, traveller, when thou art weary, and drawing nigh drink of our spring; and even far away remember the fountain that Simus sets by the side of Gillus his dead child.
XXX ON THE CHILDREN OF NICANDER AND LYSIDICE AUTHOR UNKNOWN
This is the single tomb of Nicander's children; the light of a single morning ended the sacred offspring of Lysidice.
XXXI ON A BABY AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Me a baby that was just tasting life heaven snatched away, I know not whether for good or for evil; insatiable Death, why hast thou snatched me cruelly in infancy? why hurriest thou? Are we not all thine in the end?