Religion
Worship in Spring (2) (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Ocean lies purple in calm; for no gale whitens the fretted waves with its ruffling breath, and no longer is the sea shattered round the rocks and sucked back again down towards the deep. West winds breathe, and the swallow titters over the straw-glued chamber that she has built. Be of good cheer, O skilled in seafaring, whether thou sail to the Syrtis or the Sicilian shingle: only by the altars of Priapus of the Anchorage burn a scarus or ruddy wrasse.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Scholasticus, Agathias. “Worship in Spring (2) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/agathias/107/.
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Scholasticus, Agathias. “Worship in Spring (2) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/agathias/107/.
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