Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They become lovers; when Glycerium is pregnant she tells her sister, who is ill, and the shock hastens Chrysis' death. Glycerium dies too, in childbirth; the queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once spoke for herself with no one to hear it but the sea: "Stranger, near this spot lies Chrysis, daughter of Arches of Andros: the ewe that has strayed from the flock lives many years in one day and dies at a great age when the sun sets...