Death & Dying
In Sound of the Sea (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Even in death shall the implacable sea vex me, Lysis hidden beneath a lonely rock, ever sounding harshly by my ear and alongside of my deaf tomb. Why, O fellow-men, have you made my dwelling by this that reft me of breath, me whom not trading in my merchant-ship but sailing in a little rowing-boat, it brought to shipwreck? and I who sought my living out of the sea, out of the sea likewise drew my death.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “In Sound of the Sea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/86/.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “In Sound of the Sea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/86/.
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