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Weary Parting (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Fair-freighted sea-faring ships that sail the Strait of Helle, taking the good north wind in your sails, if haply on the island shores of Cos you see Phanion gazing on the sparkling sea, carry this message: Fair bride, thy desire beings me, not a sailor but a wayfarer on my feet. For if you say this, carrying good news, straitway will Zeus of the Fair Weather likewise breathe into your canvas.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Weary Parting (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/170/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Weary Parting (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/170/.
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