Living
The Lord of Lands (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Living
Though thou pass beyond thy landmarks even to the pillars of Heracles, the share of earth that is equal to all men awaits thee, and thou shalt lie even as Irus, having nothing more than thine obolus, mouldering into a land that at last is not thine.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ammianus. “The Lord of Lands (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ammianus/25/.
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Ammianus. “The Lord of Lands (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ammianus/25/.
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