Time & Brevity
Book X, 81
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Time & Brevity
Alas for the brevity of life’s pleasure! Mourn the swiftness of time. We sit and we sleep, toiling or taking our delight, and time is advancing, advancing against us wretched men, bringing to each the end of life.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Alexandria, Palladas of. “Book X, 81.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/palladas/84/.
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