Death & Dying
A Wet Night (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I know not whether I shall complain of Dionysus or blame the rain of Zeus, but both are treacherous for feet. For the tomb holds Polyxenus, who returning once to the country from a feast, tumbled over the slippery slopes, and lies far from Aeolic Smyrna: but let one full of wine fear a rainy footpath in the dark.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “A Wet Night (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/96/.
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Sidon, Antipater of. “A Wet Night (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-sidon/96/.
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