Time & Brevity
Withered Blossoms (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Time & Brevity
If thou boast in thy beauty, know that the rose too blooms, but quickly being withered, is cast on the dunghill; for blossom and beauty have the same time allotted to them, and both together envious time withers away.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sardis, Strato of. “Withered Blossoms (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/strato/87/.
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Sardis, Strato of. “Withered Blossoms (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/strato/87/.
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