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.