Fragment 52
52The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the time is going by, and I sleep alone.
Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.
The silver moon is set;
The Pleiades are gone;
Half the long night is spent, and yet
I lie alone.
— J. H. Merivale.
The moon hath left the sky;
Lost is the Pleiads’ light;
It is midnight
And time slips by;
But on my couch alone I lie.
— J. A. Symonds, 1883.
Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre.