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The Tale of Troy (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Still we hear the wail of Andromache, still we see all Troy toppling from her foundations, and the battling of Ajax, and Hector, bound to the horses, dragged under the city's crown of towers, through the Muse of Maeonides, the poet with whom no one country adorns herself as her own, but the zones of both worlds.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Alpheus of. “The Tale of Troy (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/alpheus/1/.
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Mytilene, Alpheus of. “The Tale of Troy (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/alpheus/1/.
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