Melanippides
Μελανιππίδης
(c500bc)
Translated by G. Theodoridis
© 2005
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(Ed 4)
Wine after water
So,
All those who had never before tasted wine
fell into hating water
So,
Pretty quickly one lot of them was begging to
Die
whereas the other was stricken by a mania
to shout out words of prophecy.
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