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Book IX, 34
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
After I had traversed innumerable waves of the limitless sea, and stood firm for a season on the land, I was destroyed not by the sea, the terror of ships, but on shore by fire. Who will say that the sea is the more treacherous of the two? It was the earth on which I came into being that destroyed me, and I lie on the beach, reproaching the land for the fate I expected from the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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