Death & Dying
Far from Home (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
Let not this be of too much moment to thee, O Philaenis, that thou hast not found thine allotted earth by the Nile, but this tomb holds thee in Eleutherne; for to comers from all places there is an equal way to Hades.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Tymnes. “Far from Home (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tymnes/8/.
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Tymnes. “Far from Home (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tymnes/8/.
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