Death & Dying
On Polyanthus of Torone, Lost at Sea (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I bewail Polyanthus, O thou who passest by, whom Aristagore his wife laid newly-wedded in the grave, having received dust and bones (but him the ill-blown Aegean wave cast away off Sciathus), when at early dawn the fishermen drew his luckless corpse, O stranger, into the harbour of Torone.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Phaedimus. “On Polyanthus of Torone, Lost at Sea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/phaedimus/4/.
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Phaedimus. “On Polyanthus of Torone, Lost at Sea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/phaedimus/4/.
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