Death & Dying
The Tame Partridge (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
No more along the shady woodland copse, O hunter partridge, dost thou send thy clear cry from thy mouth as thou decoyest thy speckled kinsfolk in their forest feeding-ground; for thou art gone on the final road of Acheron.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Grammaticus, Simmias. “The Tame Partridge (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/simmias/8/.
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Grammaticus, Simmias. “The Tame Partridge (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/simmias/8/.
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