Religion
To the Gods of Harbour and Headland (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Harbour-god, do thou, O blessed one, send with a gentle breeze the outward-bound sail of Archelaus down smooth water even to the sea; and thou who hast the point of the shore in ward, keep the convoy that is bound for the Pythian shrine; and thenceforward, if all we singers are in Phoebus' care, I will sail cheerily on with a fair-flowing west wind.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “To the Gods of Harbour and Headland (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/50/.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “To the Gods of Harbour and Headland (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/50/.
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