Religion
To Demeter and the Seasons (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
To Demeter of the winnowing-fan and the Seasons whose feet are in the furrows Heronax lays here from the poverty of a small tilth their share of ears from the threshing-floor, and these mixed seeds of pulse on a slabbed table, the least of a little; for no great inheritance is this he has gotten him, here on the barren hill.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Zonas. “To Demeter and the Seasons (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/zonas/8/.
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Zonas. “To Demeter and the Seasons (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/zonas/8/.
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