Time & Brevity
The Bloody Well (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I the Clear Fount (for the Nymphs gave this surname to me beyond all other springs) since a robber slew men who were resting beside me and washed his bloodstained hand in my holy waters, have turned that sweet flow backward, and no longer gush out for wayfarers; for who any more will call me the Clear?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Apollonides. “The Bloody Well (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/apollonides/32/.
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Apollonides. “The Bloody Well (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/apollonides/32/.
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