Death & Dying
On the Dead in a Battle in Boeotia (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
O Time, all-surveying deity of the manifold things wrought among mortals, carry to all men the message of our fate, that striving to save the holy soil of Greece we die on the renowned Boeotian plains.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “On the Dead in a Battle in Boeotia (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/1137/.
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Anonymous (Greek Anthology). “On the Dead in a Battle in Boeotia (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-greek-anthology/1137/.
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