Note 318 — Chapter VII · THEOCRITUS—THE GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS
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The following translation by Mr. Andrew Lang is truer:
”Theris the Old, the waves that harvested More keen than birds that labour in the sea. With spear and net, by shore and rocky bed, Not with the well-manned galley laboured he; Him not the star of storms, nor sudden sweep Of wind with all his years hath smitten and bent, But in his hut of reeds he fell asleep, As fades a lamp when all the oil is spent: This tomb nor wife nor children raised, but we His fellow-toilers, fishers of the sea.”