Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/Niobe

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Translation of a Greek epigram, whose author is uncertain: perhaps Agathias (c. AD 530–c. AD 580).

2345493Once a Week, Series 1, Volume IV — Niobe
Edgar Alfred Bowring

NIOBE.
(FROM THE GREEK.)

Within this tomb no corpse was ever laid,
To hold this corpse no tomb was ever made,
But tomb and corpse in one are here display’d.

E. A. Bowring.