Death & Dying
On a Cretan Merchant (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
I Brotachus of Gortyna, a Cretan, lie here, not having come hither for this, but for traffic.
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MLA
Ceos, Simonides of. “On a Cretan Merchant (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/simonides/71/.
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Ceos, Simonides of. “On a Cretan Merchant (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/simonides/71/.
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