Love
The Light of Troy (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Athenion sang of that fatal horse to me; all Troy was in fire, and I kindled along with it, not fearing the ten years' toil of Greece; and in that single blaze Trojans and I perished together then.
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Dioscorides. “The Light of Troy (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dioscorides/39/.
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Dioscorides. “The Light of Troy (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dioscorides/39/.
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