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Niconoe
by:
Nicarchus
(1st century A.D.)
translated by William Roger Paton
Niconoe was once in her prime, I admit that,
But her prime was when Deucalion looked on the vast waters.
Of those times we have no knowledge,
But of her now we know that she should seek
Not a husband, but a tomb.
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