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Ἡμάξευσα καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ τρισδύστηνος Ἄναξις
— Paton edition
τοῦτον δύσζῳον κοὐ βίοτον βίοτον.
οὐ μὴν πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἤλασα: λὰξ δὲ πατήσας
λυσσώδη ζωήν, ἤλυθον εἰς Ἀίδεω.
I, too, thrice unhappy Anaxis, carted along the
— Paton edition
burden of this weary life that is no life. Yet I did
not pull it for long, but spurning from me this
distraught life I went to Hades.
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