Death & Dying
On the Grave of an Athenian Woman at Cyzicus (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I am an Athenian woman; for that was my city; but from Athens the wasting war-god of the Italians plundered me long ago and made a Roman citizen; and now that I am dead, seagirt Cyzicus wraps my bones. Fare thou well, O land that nurturedst me, and thou that thereafter didst hold me, and thou that at last hast taken me to thy breast.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Erycius. “On the Grave of an Athenian Woman at Cyzicus (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/erycius/11/.
Chicago
Erycius. “On the Grave of an Athenian Woman at Cyzicus (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/erycius/11/.
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