Death & Dying
On the Eretrian Exiles in Persia (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
We who of old left the booming surge of the Aegean lie here in the mid-plain of Ecbatana: fare thou well, renowned Eretria once our country, farewell Athens nigh to Euboea, farewell dear sea.
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MLA
Plato. “On the Eretrian Exiles in Persia (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/26/.
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Plato. “On the Eretrian Exiles in Persia (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/26/.
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