Funerary inscription in elegiacs for (no name), advising
reader to expect neither long life nor quick death; 1/4; found at
Smyrna: CIG 3397; Kaibel 303; Cougny, Anth. Pal. Append. II 638;
SEG 4, 630; Robert, RPh 18, 1944, 54-55 (= OM III 1420-1421);
Peek, GV I 1364; Jongkees, Greek Antiquities I 1-10 (PH); Peek,
Griech. Grabged. 327; Pfuhl & Möbius 847 (PH); Jost, Drie stenen
91-100; SEG 30, 1370; *ISmyrna 558 + II 2 pp. 374-375.
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ISmyrn 558 + II2 pp. 374-75
| 1 | ἄνθρωπος τοῦτ’ ἔσ- |
| τι· τίς εἶ, βλέπε, καὶ τὸ | |
| μένον σε, εἰκόνα τήν- | |
| δε ἐσορῶν σὸν τὸ τέ- | |
| 5 | λος λόγισαι καὶ ❦ |
| βιότῳ χρῆσαι μή- | |
| θ’ ὡς ἰς αἰῶνας ἔχων | |
| ζῆν, μήθ’ ὡς ὠκύμο- | |
| ρος, ἵνα γηράσαντά | |
| 10 | σε πολλοὶ μαστί- |
| ξωσι λόγοις θλειβόμε- | |
| νον πενίῃ. |