Death & Dying
A Restless Grave (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Not even in death shall I Theris, tossed shipwrecked upon land by the waves, forget the sleepless shores; for beneath the spray-beaten reefs, nigh the disastrous main, I found a grave at the hands of strangers, and for ever do I wretchedly hear roaring even among the dead the hated thunder of the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Archias. “A Restless Grave (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/archias/32/.
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Archias. “A Restless Grave (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/archias/32/.
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