No more exulting o'er the buoyant sea
High shall I raise my head in gambols free;
Nor by some gallant ship breathe out the air,
Pleas'd with my own bright image figur'd there.
The storm's black mist has forc'd me to the land,
And laid me lifeless on this couch of sand.

Οὐκέτι δὴ πλωτοῖσιν ἀγαλλόμενος πελάγεσσιν
αὐχέν᾽ ἀναρρίψω βυσσόθεν ὀρνύμενος,
οὐδὲ περὶ σκαλάμοισι νεὼς περικαλλέα χείλη
ποιφύσσω, τἀμᾷ τερπόμενος προτομᾷ:
ἀλλά με πορφυρέα πόντου νοτὶς ὦς᾽ ἐπὶ χέρσον,
κεῖμαι δὲ ῥαδινὰν τάνδε παρ᾽ ἠιόνα.

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