Nature
Book IX, 106
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nature
I am a ship that, after I had traversed so many leagues of sea, the fire burnt on the land that had stripped herself of her pine-trees to build me. I, whom the sea spared, perished on the shore. I found her who bore me more faithless than the sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Alexandria, Leonidas of. “Book IX, 106.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/leonidas-alexandria/11/.
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