Death & Dying
Epigram LIX (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Who art thou, O shipwrecked stranger? Leontichus found thee here a corpse upon the beach, and covered thee in this tomb, with tears for his own hazardous life. For no quiet life is his either, but restless as the gull he roams the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/213/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LIX (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/213/.
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