Time & Brevity

Corinth (Mackail)

by Antipater of Sidon fl. c. 130 BC

Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)

Time & Brevity

Where is thine admired beauty, Dorian Corinth, where thy crown of towers? where thy treasures of old, where the temples of the immortals, where the halls and where the wives of the Sisyphids, and the tens of thousands of thy people that were? for not even a trace, O most distressful one, is left of thee, and war has swept up together and clean devoured all; only we, the unravaged sea-nymphs, maidens of Ocean, abide, halcyons wailing for thy woes.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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Sidon, Antipater of. “Corinth (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/93/.

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Sidon, Antipater of. “Corinth (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/93/.

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