Death & Dying
Dimitte Mortuos (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
My name--Why this?--and my country--And to what end this?--and I am of illustrious race--Yea, if thou hadst been of the obscurest?--Having lived nobly I left life--If ignobly?--and I lie here now--Who art thou that sayest this, and to whom?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Silentiary, Paul the. “Dimitte Mortuos (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/88/.
Chicago
Silentiary, Paul the. “Dimitte Mortuos (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/88/.
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