Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 26 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Notable but lately with Latin vine-rod mid Egypt's cities, and a captain of renown to thy hundred soldiers, yet now, O thou who wert promised in vain to Ausonian Quirinus, thou liest, an alien ghost, on the Lagaean shore. 'Twas not allowed me to sprinkle thy chill cheek with my tears, nor to shed rich incense on thy lamented pyre. But there is given thee a name that shall live in deathless song: nay, treacherous Nile, canst thou refuse that too?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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