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The Sinking of the Pleiad
By Theocritus (fl. Third Century B.C.)
From ‘Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology,’ edited by John William Mackail
O
MAN, be sparing of life, neither go on seafaring beyond the time; even so the life of man is not long. Miserable Cleonicus, yet thou didst hasten to come to fair Thasos, a merchantman out of hollow Syria, O merchant Cleonicus; but hard on the sinking of the Pleiad as thou journeyedst over the sea, as the Pleiad sank so didst thou.
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