Death & Dying
Epigram XIX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Would that swift ships had never even been! So should we not be mourning Sopolis, son of Diocleides. But now he floats somewhere in the sea, a corpse, and, in his stead, his name and empty tomb we pass by.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/173/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/173/.
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