Death & Dying
The Ant by the Threshing Floor (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
Here to thee by the threshing floor, O toiling worker ant, I rear a memorial to thee of a thirsty clod, that even in death the ear-nurturing furrow of Demeter may lull thee as thou liest in thy rustic cell.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “The Ant by the Threshing Floor (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/94/.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “The Ant by the Threshing Floor (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/94/.
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