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Greek Anthology Book I Chapter XI Part III

From J. W. Mackail

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Death - At the World's End, Crinagoras


The Greek Anthology

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XXI
AT THE WORLD'S END
CRINAGORAS

Alas, why wander we, trusting in vain hopes and forgetting baneful death? this Seleucus was perfect in his words and ways, but, having enjoyed his youth but a little, among the utmost Iberians, so far away from Lesbos, he lies a stranger on unmapped shores.

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