Time & Brevity
Reversal (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Time & Brevity
A man finding gold left a halter; but he who had left the gold, not finding it, knotted the halter he found.
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MLA
Plato. “Reversal (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/35/.
Chicago
Plato. “Reversal (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/35/.
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