Social Commentaries
The Patent Stove (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Social Commentaries
You have bought a brass hot-water urn, Heliodorus, that is chillier than the north wind about Thrace; do not blow, do not labour, you but raise smoke in vain; it is a brass wine-cooler you have bought against summer.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Nicarchus. “The Patent Stove (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/nicarchus/51/.
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Nicarchus. “The Patent Stove (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/nicarchus/51/.
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