ELEGIES
I
Ετελεύτησε παρθένος . . . ὰπῆλθε δε ὲννέα καὶ δέκατις.
Eustath. ad II. B.
Eustath. ad II. B.
"She died a maiden . . . . departing at nineteen."
II
Νῦν δ' ὲκτὸς οῖκων, κὰπι γῆς ἅλλης Φυγὰς
Κακῶς άπώλου, σῆς κασιγνήτης δίχα.
Soph. Electra.
Κακῶς άπώλου, σῆς κασιγνήτης δίχα.
Soph. Electra.
"Now far from home, a fugitive in other lands, sadly hast thou perished, severed from thy sister,"
Two jewels lost—Oh, long-divided pair!
Backward through time I turn to look for them,
And one I find beneath a cypress stem
Hid many a summer deep—the other, where?
By time and space so far asunder tost,
That, in a dreamland early casketed,
This, in the after years so wildly lost—
Few miss them now, few count the long since dead.
Backward through time I turn to look for them,
And one I find beneath a cypress stem
Hid many a summer deep—the other, where?
By time and space so far asunder tost,
That, in a dreamland early casketed,
This, in the after years so wildly lost—
Few miss them now, few count the long since dead.
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