Time & Brevity
Memnon and Achilles (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Time & Brevity
Know, O Thetis of the sea, that Memnon yet lives and cries aloud, warmed by his mother's torch, in Egypt beneath Libyan brows, where the running Nile severs fair-portalled Thebes; but Achilles, the insatiate of battle, utters no voice either on the Trojan plain or in Thessaly.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Asclepiodotus. “Memnon and Achilles (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiodotus/0/.
Chicago
Asclepiodotus. “Memnon and Achilles (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiodotus/0/.