Death & Dying
Epigram XX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Not on land died Lycus of Naxos, but at sea he saw ship and life perish together, when sailing as a merchant from Aegina. And he in the wet sea is a corpse, while I, the tomb that holds only his name, proclaim this message of utter truth: Flee the company of the sea, O mariner, when the Kids are setting!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/174/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/174/.
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