Death & Dying
On a Betrothed Girl (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I am of Baucis the bride; and passing by my oft-wept pillar thou mayest say this to Death that dwells under ground, "Thou art envious, O Death"; and the coloured monument tells to him who sees it the most bitter fortune of Bauco, how her father-in-law burned the girl on the funeral pyre with those torches by whose light the marriage train was to be led home; and thou, O Hymenaeus, didst change the tuneable bridal song into a voice of wailing dirges.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Erinna. “On a Betrothed Girl (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/erinna/3/.
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Erinna. “On a Betrothed Girl (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/erinna/3/.
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