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Earth's Felicity (Mackail)

by Carphyllides before c. 100 BC (Paton’s date)

Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)

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Find no fault as thou passest by my monument, O wayfarer; not even in death have I aught worthy of lamentation. I have left children's children; I had joy of one wife, who grew old along with me; I made marriage for three sons whose sons I often lulled asleep on my breast, and never moaned over the sickness or the death of any: who, shedding tears without sorrow over me, sent me to slumber the sweet sleep in the country of the holy.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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Carphyllides. “Earth's Felicity (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carphyllides/2/.

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Carphyllides. “Earth's Felicity (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carphyllides/2/.

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