Living

Book IX, 35

by Antiphilus of Byzantium 1st century AD

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)

Living

I am the newly-fashioned keel of a ship, and the sea beside which I lay carried me off, raging against me even on land.

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