Living
Vain Riches (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Thou reckonest, poor wretch; but advancing time breeds white old age even as it does interest; and neither having drunk, nor bound a flower on thy brows, nor ever known myrrh nor a delicate darling, thou shalt be dead, leaving thy great treasury in its wealth, out of those many coins carrying with thee but the one.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Macedonia, Antiphanes of. “Vain Riches (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphanes/9/.
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Macedonia, Antiphanes of. “Vain Riches (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphanes/9/.
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