Note 1289 — Chapter V · CREMATION AND INHUMATION.
Reading edition
These lines, or others in the same tenor, are well known among the professional μυρολογίστριαις (women hired to mourn at funerals). The version which I here follow is given by Passow, Popul. Carm. no. 377 A.
Κι’ ὄντες νά με περάσουνε ψάλλοντες οἱ παπᾶδες, Ἔβγα κρυφὰ ’π’ τὴ μάνα σου κι’ ἄναψε τρεῖς λαμπάδες· Κι’ ὄντες νά μου τὰ σβέσουνε παπᾶδες τὰ κηριά μου, Τότες τρανταφυλλένια μου βγαίνεις ἀπ’ τὴν καρδιά μου.