Time & Brevity
The End of Desire (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Time & Brevity
I who once was Laïs, an arrow in all men's hearts, no longer Laïs, am plainly to all the Nemesis of years. Ay, by the Cyprian (and what is the Cyprian now to me but an oath to swear by?) not Laïs herself knows Laïs now.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Tarentum, Secundus of. “The End of Desire (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/secundus-tarentum/4/.
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Tarentum, Secundus of. “The End of Desire (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/secundus-tarentum/4/.
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