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Book IX, 36

by Secundus of Tarentum date not given by Paton

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)

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I, the ship which had traversed the paths of the limitless ocean, and swum so often through the gray waves; I, whom neither the black east wind overwhelmed nor the fierce swell raised by the winter south-westers drove on shore, am now shipwrecked in the flames, and reproach the faithless land, in sore need now of the waters of my sea.

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