Living
The One Hope (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
It is not living that has essential delight, but throwing away out of the breast cares that silver the temples. I would have wealth sufficient for me, and the excess of maddening care for gold ever eats away the spirit; thus among men thou wilt find often death better than life, as poverty than wealth. Knowing this, do thou make straight the paths of thine heart, looking to our one hope, Wisdom.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “The One Hope (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/89/.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “The One Hope (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/89/.
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