Social Commentaries
Summer Sailing (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Mine be a mattress on the poop, and the awnings over it surrounding with the blows of the spray, and the fire forcing its way out of the hearth-stones, and a pot upon them with empty turmoil of bubbles; and let me see the boy dressing the meat, and my table be a ship's plank covered with a cloth; and a game of pitch and toss, and the boatswain's whistle: the other day I had such fortune, for I love common life.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Summer Sailing (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/53/.
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Byzantium, Antiphilus of. “Summer Sailing (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antiphilus/53/.
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