Death & Dying
On the Empty Tomb of One Lost at Sea (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
Not dust nor the light weight of a stone, but all this sea that thou beholdest is the tomb of Erasippus; for he perished with his ship, and in some unknown place his bones moulder, and the sea-gulls alone know them to tell.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Nicopolis, Glaucus of. “On the Empty Tomb of One Lost at Sea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/glaucus/4/.
Chicago
Nicopolis, Glaucus of. “On the Empty Tomb of One Lost at Sea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/glaucus/4/.
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