Death & Dying
The Empty House (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Hapless Nicanor, doomed by the grey sea, thou liest then naked on a strange beach, or haply by the rocks, and those wealthy halls are perished from thee, and lost is the hope of all Tyre; nor did aught of thy treasures save thee; alas, pitiable one! thou didst perish, and all thy labour was for the fishes and the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “The Empty House (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/87/.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “The Empty House (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/87/.
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