Death & Dying
On the Same (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
Thymodes also, weeping over unlooked-for woes, reared this empty tomb to Lycus his son; for not even in a strange land did he get a grave, but some Thynian beach or Pontic island holds him, where, forlorn of all funeral rites, his shining bones lie naked on an inhospitable shore.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Damagetus. “On the Same (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/damagetus/12/.
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Damagetus. “On the Same (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/damagetus/12/.
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