Social Commentaries
Snow in Summer (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
With this once the sharp North Wind rushing from Thrace covered the flanks of Olympus, and nipped the spirits of thinly-clad men; then it was buried alive, clad in Pierian earth. Let a share of it be mingled for me; for it is not seemly to bear a tepid draught to a friend.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ceos, Simonides of. “Snow in Summer (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/simonides/72/.
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Ceos, Simonides of. “Snow in Summer (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/simonides/72/.
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