Time & Brevity
Mycenae (1) (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Few of the native places of the heroes are in our eyes, and those yet left rise little above the plain; and such art thou, O hapless Mycenae, as I marked thee in passing by, more desolate than any hill-pasture, a thing that goatherds point at; and an old man said, "Here stood the Cyclopean city rich in gold."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Alpheus of. “Mycenae (1) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/alpheus/2/.
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Mytilene, Alpheus of. “Mycenae (1) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/alpheus/2/.
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