Death & Dying
At the World's End (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Alas, why wander we, trusting in vain hopes and forgetting baneful death? this Seleucus was perfect in his words and ways, but, having enjoyed his youth but a little, among the utmost Iberians, so far away from Lesbos, he lies a stranger on unmapped shores.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “At the World's End (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/55/.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “At the World's End (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/55/.
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