Sleep no more, Cypris, beneath thy purple coverlet, but awake to thy misery; put on the sable robe and fall to beating thy breast, and tell it to the world, The beauteous Adonis іs dead.

μηκέτι πορφυρέοις ἐνὶ φάρεσι Κύπρι κάθευδε·
ἔγρεο δειλαία κυανόστολε καὶ πλατάγησον
στήθεα καὶ λέγε πᾶσιν· ἀπώλετο καλὸς Ἄδωνις.

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