Living
The Price of Riches (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Living
Thou art rich, and what of it in the end? as thou departest, dost thou drag thy riches with thee, pulling them into the coffin? Thou gatherest riches at expense of time, and thou canst not heap up more exceeding measures of life.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “The Price of Riches (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/164/.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “The Price of Riches (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/164/.
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