Death & Dying
On the Same (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
May the seafarer have a prosperous voyage; but if, like me, the gale drive him into the harbour of Hades, let him blame not the inhospitable sea-gulf, but his own foolhardiness that loosed moorings from our tomb.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Tarentum, Leonidas of. “On the Same (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/leonidas-tarentum/97/.
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Tarentum, Leonidas of. “On the Same (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/leonidas-tarentum/97/.
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