Religion
To Apollo of Leucas (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Phoebus who holdest the sheer steep of Leucas, far seen of mariners and washed by the Ionian sea, receive of sailors this mess of hand-kneaded barley bread and a libation mingled in a little cup, and the gleam of a brief-shining lamp that drinks with half-saturate mouth from a sparing oil-flask; in recompence whereof be gracious, and send on their sails a favourable wind to run with them to the harbours of Actium.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Thessalonica, Philippus of. “To Apollo of Leucas (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/81/.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “To Apollo of Leucas (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/81/.
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