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Meleager (1) (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Tread softly, O stranger; for here an old man sleeps among the holy dead, lulled in the slumber due to all, Meleager son of Eucrates, who united Love of the sweet tears and the Muses with the joyous Graces; whom God-begotten Tyre brought to manhood, and the sacred land of Gadara, but lovely Cos nursed in old age among the Meropes. But if thou art a Syrian, say /Salam/, and if a Phoenician, /Naidios/, and if a Greek, Hail; they are the same.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Meleager (1) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/168/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Meleager (1) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/168/.
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