APOLLO: If she dies old, the burial will be richer.
DEATH: Phoebus, that argument favours the rich.
APOLLO: What! Are you witty unawares?
DEATH: The rich would gladly pay to die old.

[ἈΠΌΛΛΩΝ: κἂν γραῦς ὄληται, πλουσίως ταφήσεται.
ΘΆΝΑΤΟΣ: πρὸς τῶν ἐχόντων, Φοῖβε, τὸν νόμον τίθης.
ἈΠΌΛΛΩΝ: πῶς εἶπας; ἀλλ᾽ ἦ καὶ σοφὸς λέληθας ὤν;
ΘΆΝΑΤΟΣ: ὠνοῖντ᾽ ἂν οἷς πάρεστι γηραιοὶ θανεῖν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist

Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l. 56ff (438 BC) [tr. Aldington (1930)]
    (Source)

Apollo, trying to persuade Death to not yet take the young bride Alcestis, the only one willing to die in place of her husband Admetus.

(Source (Greek)). Other translations:

APOLLO: More sumptuous obsequies await her age.
ORCUS: This were a law in favour of the rich.
APOLLO: What secret meaning hath thy wisdom here?
ORCUS: They with their wealth would purchase to die old.
[tr. Potter (1781)]

APOLLO: But in mature old age if she expire,
She will be buried sumptuously.
DEATH:The law
Thou hast propos'd, O Phœbus, tends to serve
The rich, and them alone.
APOLLO:What mean these words?
Are you grown wise? I knew not this before.
DEATH: They who had any wealth might buy me off
Till the grow old.
[tr. Wodhull (1782)]

APOLLO: And if she die old, she will be sumptuously intombed.
DEATH: Thou layest down the law, Phœbus, in favor of the rich.
APOLLO: How sayest thou? what? hast thou been clever without my perceiving it?
DEATH: Those who have means would purchase to die old.
[tr. Buckley (1858)]

PHŒBOS: If old she died, the Fun'ral Pomp would richer be!
THANATOS: For wealthy Mortals, Phœbus, lay'st thou down the law!
PHŒBOS: What say'st? A Sophist art? Has't hid the fact from me?
THANATOS: (laughing) So, all rich folks may buy the right of dying old!
[tr. HBL (1884)]

APOLLO:But if age
Come on her ere she die, her funeral rites
Will be the richer.
DEATH:Phœbus, what thou say'st
Is a law for the rich.
APOLLO:How say'st thou? Art
Thou witty inadvertently?
DEATH:The rich
Would buy the privilege of dying old.
[tr. Cudworth (1888)]

APOLLO. Should she die old, a sumptuous funeral will she have.
DEATH. Phœbus, the law thou layest down is all in favour of the rich.
APOLLO. What mean'st thou? art so wise, and I never knew it?
DEATH. Those who have wealth would buy the chance of their dying old.
[tr. Coleridge (1891)]

APOLLO: Think — royal obsequies if old she die!
DEATH: Lo, Phœbus making laws to shield the rich!
APOLLO: How say'st thou? — thou a sophist unawares!
DEATH: Would wealth not buy the boon of dying old?
[tr. Way (1894)]

APOLLO: But aged wives receive more pomp at death.
DEATH: Thou suitest my Laws, O Phoebus, to the rich.
APOLLO: Old Death is shrewder than I thought he was!
DEATH: The rich would buy the chance of dying old.
[tr. Beloit College (1908)]

APOLLO: Old, with great riches they will bury her.
THANATOS: Fie on thee, fie! Thou rich-man’s lawgiver!
APOLLO: How? Is there wit in Death, who seemed so blind?
THANATOS: The rich would buy long life for all their kind.
[tr. Murray (1915)]

APOLLO: Let her die old, and her funeral will bring you riches.
DEATH: I leave you the riches, Apollo. You know what they are worth.
Your rich men
Can pay you well to buy them away from Death.
APOLLO: Who would ever have said Death had such wit!
[tr. Fitts/Fitzgerald (1936)]

APOLLO: If she dies old, she will be richly buried.
DEATH: Phoebus, your law may favour wealth; not mine.
You'ld sell long life to the rich.
APOLLO:Do you say so?
Your keen wit has gone long unrecognized.
[tr. Vellacott (1953)]

APOLLO: And yet if she dies old, she will receive a rich burial.
DEATH: The law you are trying to establish, Phoebus, is to the advantage of the rich.
APOLLO: What do you mean? Can I have failed to appreciate what a thinker you are?
DEATH: Those with means could buy death at an advanced age.
[tr. Kovacs (1994)]

APOLLO: Even if it is an old woman who dies, her funeral will be costly.
DEATH: Why, Phoebus, it's for the benefit of the rich, the law you advocate!
APOLLO: What do you mean? Have I underestimated your intelligence?
DEATH: Those with the means would pay for the privilege of dying old.
[tr. Davie (1996)]

APOLLO: If she dies as an old woman, she will be buried more lavishly.
DEATH: You set up a law weighted toward "the haves," Phoibos!
APOLLO: What did you say? I never noticed that you were so clever before.
DEATH: Those who could afford it would pay to die old.
[tr. Rabinowitz (1999)]

APOLLO: Still, the older she dies the more wealth she’ll take down there with her on her burial day.
THANATOS: Apollo, you’re trying to set an unfair precedent here! It’s a law that will favour the rich!
APOLLO: O, I can see you’re a deep thinker, Thanatos! A true philosopher.
THANATOS: Can’t you see? Anyone with money would try and buy long life! All the poor would die young.
[tr. Theodoridis (2008)]

APOLLO: And yet if she dies in old age, she will have a rich funeral.
THANATOS: Your law favors the haves over the have nots, Phoebus.
APOLLO: What do you mean? Have you become a sophist and not told anybody?
THANATOS: Those who could afford it would buy a ripe old age.
[tr. Luschnig / Luschnig (2019)]