Arts & Sciences
Popular Songs (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Arts & Sciences
Eutychides, the writer of songs, is dead; flee, O you under earth! Eutychides is coming with his odes; he left instructions to burn along with him twelve lyres and twenty-five boxes of airs. Now Charon has come upon you; whither may one retreat in future, since Eutychides fills Hades too?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Lucillius. “Popular Songs (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lucillius/125/.
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Lucillius. “Popular Songs (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lucillius/125/.
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