Death & Dying
The Sinking of the Pleiad (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
O man, be sparing of life, neither go on sea-faring beyond the time; even so the life of man is not long. Miserable Cleonicus, yet thou didst hasten to come to fair Thasos, a merchantman out of hollow Syria, O merchant Cleonicus; but hard on the sinking of the Pleiad as thou journeyedst over the sea, as the Pleiad sank, so didst thou.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Aetolia, Automedon of. “The Sinking of the Pleiad (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/automedon/11/.
Chicago
Aetolia, Automedon of. “The Sinking of the Pleiad (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/automedon/11/.
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