Mythology & Folklore
Book IX, 289
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
O rocks of Caphereus, fatal to ships, which destroyed the fleet of the Greeks on their home-coming from Troy, then when the lying beacon sent forth a flame darker than the night of hell, and every keel ran blindly on the sunken reefs, ye were another Troy to Greece and more deadly than the ten years’ war. Troy indeed they sacked, but Caphereus was invincible. Nauplius, then did Hellas weep tears which were a joy to thee.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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