Nature
Green Summer (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I do not wish to feast down in the city, Philotherus, but in the country, delighting myself with the breath of the west wind; sufficient couch for me is a strewing of boughs under my side, for at hand is a bed of native willow and osier, the ancient garland of the Carians; but let wine be brought, and the delightful lyre of the Muses, that drinking at our will we may sing the renowned bride of Zeus, lady of our island.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Nicaenetus. “Green Summer (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/nicaenetus/5/.
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Nicaenetus. “Green Summer (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/nicaenetus/5/.
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