Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/Niobe
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.
Translation of a Greek epigram, whose author is uncertain: perhaps Agathias (c. AD 530–c. AD 580).
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.