Living
Epigram XVII
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) · From Homerica (Loeb, 1914)
Living
HOMER: Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything?
FISHERMAN: All that we caught we left behind, and all that we did not catch we carry home.
HOMER: Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.
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Codex Note
Attributed to Homer in antiquity.
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Homer. “Epigram XVII.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/homer/17/.
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Homer. “Epigram XVII.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/homer/17/.
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