A ship-wreck’d sailor, buried on this coast,
Bids you set sail.
Full many a gallant ship, when we were lost,
Weathered the gale.
From: Wellesley, Henry, Anthologia Polyglotta. A selection of versions in various languages, chiefly from the Greek Anthology, 1849, John Murray: London, p. 300.
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Date: 3rd century BCE (original in Greek); 1849 (translation in English)
By: Theodoridas of Syracuse (3rd century BCE)
Translated by: Henry Wellesley (1791-1866)
From Troubles of The World 