Death & Dying
On an Empty Tomb in Trachis (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Not rocky Trachis covers over thy white bones, nor this stone with her dark-blue lettering; but them the Icarian wave dashes about the shingle of Doliche and steep Dracanon; and I, this empty earth, for old friendship with Polymedes, am heaped among the thirsty herbage of Dryopis.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Euphorion. “On an Empty Tomb in Trachis (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/euphorion/2/.
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Euphorion. “On an Empty Tomb in Trachis (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/euphorion/2/.
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