Living
Daily Birth (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Living
Day by day we are born as night retires, no more possessing aught of our former life, estranged from our course of yesterday, and beginning to-day the life that remains. Do not then call thyself, old man, abundant in years; for to-day thou hast no share in what is gone.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “Daily Birth (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/162/.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “Daily Birth (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/162/.
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