Time & Brevity
Mycenae (2) (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Though I am but drifted desolate dust where once was Mycenae, though I am more obscure to see than any chance rock, he who looks on the famed city of Ilus, whose walls I trod down and emptied all the house of Priam, will know thence how great my former strength was; and if old age has done me outrage, I am content with Homer's testimony.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Younger, Pompeius the. “Mycenae (2) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pompeius/2/.
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Younger, Pompeius the. “Mycenae (2) (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pompeius/2/.
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