Death & Dying
On a Slain Warrior (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
Valiant in war was Timocritus, whose monument this is; but Ares spares the bad, not the good.
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Anacreon. “On a Slain Warrior (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anacreon/99/.
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Anacreon. “On a Slain Warrior (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anacreon/99/.
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