by no wife's hand were they laid out in their winding sheets

From LSJ

Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

English > Greek (Woodhouse Quotes)

οὐ δάμαρτος ἐν χεροῖν πέπλοις συνεστάλησαν

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