Alkaios
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To His Friend Melanippos
Drink and be drunk with me, Melanippos. Do you
think when you have crossed the great fuming
river,
you will ever return from Hell to see the clean
bright light of the sun? Do not strive for wild
hopes.
Even the son of Aiolos, King Sisyphos, wisest of
men,
thought he had eluded death. But for all his brains
Fate made him recross Acheron, and the son of
Kronos
assigned him a terrible trial below the dark earth.
Come, I beg you not to brood about these hopeless
matters while we are young. We will suffer what
must
be suffered. When the wind is waiting in the north,
a good captain will not swing into the open sea.
THE END
FOOTNOTES
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Chicago: Willis Barnstone, "To His Friend Melanippos," Alkaios Original Sources, accessed September 17, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CQDD19ACFMIPTK8.
MLA: Barnstone, Willis. "To His Friend Melanippos." Alkaios, Original Sources. 17 Sep. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CQDD19ACFMIPTK8.
Harvard: Barnstone, W, 'To His Friend Melanippos' in Alkaios. Original Sources, retrieved 17 September 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CQDD19ACFMIPTK8.
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