Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Anonymous
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XXI ON THE SAME CALLIMACHUS What stranger, O shipwrecked man? Leontichus found me here a corpse on the shore, and heaped this tomb over me, with tears for his own calamitous life: for neither is he at peace, but flits like a gull over the sea. XXII ON THE EMPTY TOMB OF ONE LOST AT SEA GLAUCUS Not dust nor the light weight of a stone, but all this sea that thou beholdest is the tomb of Erasippus; for he perished with his ship, and in some unknown place his bones moulder, and the sea-gulls alone know them to tell. XXIII ON THE SAME SIMONIDES Cloudcapt Geraneia, cruel steep, would thou hadst looked on far Ister and long Scythian Tanais, and not lain nigh the surge of the Scironian sea by the ravines of the snowy Meluriad rock: but now he is a chill corpse in ocean, and the empty tomb here cries aloud of his heavy |
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