XVII ON THE SAME PLATO Well be with you, O mariners, both at sea and on land; but know that you pass by the grave of a shipwrecked man. XVIII ON THE SAME THEODORIDES I am the tomb of one shipwrecked; but sail thou; for when we were perishing, the other ships sailed on over the sea. XIX ON THE SAME LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM May the seafarer have a prosperous voyage; but if, like me, the gale drive him into the harbour of Hades, let him blame not the inhospitable sea-gulf, but his own foolhardiness that loosed moorings from our tomb. XX ON THE SAME AUTHOR UNKNOWN Mariner, ask not whose tomb I am here, but be thine own fortune a kinder sea. XXI ON THE SAME CALLIMACHUS What stranger, O shipwrecked man? Leontichus found me here a corpse on the shore, and heaped this tomb over me, with tears for his own calamitous life: for neither is he at peace, but flits like a gull over the sea. XXII ON THE EMPTY TOMB OF ONE LOST AT SEA GLAUCUS Not dust nor the light weight of a stone, but all this sea that thou beholdest is the tomb of Erasippus; for he perished with his ship, and in some unknown place his bones moulder, and the sea-gulls alone know them to tell. XXIII ON THE SAME SIMONIDES Cloudcapt Geraneia, cruel steep, would thou hadst looked on far Ister and long Scythian Tanaïs, and not lain nigh the surge of the Scironian sea by the ravines of the snowy Meluriad rock: but now he is a chill corpse in ocean, and the empty tomb here cries aloud of his heavy voyage. XXIV ON THE SAME DAMAGETUS Thymodes also, weeping over unlooked-for woes, reared this empty tomb to Lycus his son; for not even in a strange land did he get a grave, but some Thynian beach or Pontic island holds him, where, forlorn of all funeral rites, his shining bones lie naked on an inhospitable shore. XXV ON A SAILOR DROWNED IN HARBOUR ANTIPATER OF SIDON Everywhere the sea is the sea; why idly blame we the Cyclades or the narrow wave of Helle and the Needles? in vain have they their fame; or why when I had escaped them did the harbour of Scarphe cover me? Pray whoso will for a fair passage home; that the sea's way is the sea, Aristagoras knows who is buried here.