PLATO

Well be with you, O mariners, both at sea and on land; but know that
you pass by the grave of a shipwrecked man.


XVIII
ON THE SAME
THEODORIDES

I am the tomb of one shipwrecked; but sail thou; for when we were
perishing, the other ships sailed on over the sea.


XIX
ON THE SAME
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM

May the seafarer have a prosperous voyage; but if, like me, the gale
drive him into the harbour of Hades, let him blame not the
inhospitable sea-gulf, but his own foolhardiness that loosed moorings
from our tomb.


XX
ON THE SAME
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Mariner, ask not whose tomb I am here, but be thine own fortune a
kinder sea.