Death & Dying
On a Shipwrecked Sailor (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
I am the tomb of one shipwrecked; and that opposite me, of a husbandman; for a common Hades lies beneath sea and earth.
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MLA
Plato. “On a Shipwrecked Sailor (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/28/.
Chicago
Plato. “On a Shipwrecked Sailor (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/28/.
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