Aulus Licinius Archias

Aulus Licinius Archias (Greek: Ἀρχίας; fl. c. 120 – 61 BC) was a Graeco-Syrian poet.

Quotes

• Οὐκέτι παφλάζοντα διαΐσσων βυθὸν ἅλμης
    δελφίς, πτοιήσεις εἰναλίων ἀγέλας,
  οὐδὲ πολυτρήτοιο μέλος καλάμοιο χορεύων
    ὑγρὸν ἀναρρίψεις ἅλμα παρὰ σκαφίσιν
  οὐδὲ σὺ γ᾽, ἀφρηστά, Νηρηίδας ὡς πρὶν ἀείρων
    νώτοις πορθμεύσεις Τηθύος εἰς πέρατα.
  ἦ γὰρ ἴσον; πρηῶνι Μαλείης ὡς ἐκυκήθη,
    κῦμα πολυψάμμους ὦσέ σ᾿ ἐπὶ ψαμάθους.
  • No more to plunge through depths of bubbling sea,
      Startling the finny shoals that downward float
    Nor gambol to the reed-pipe’s melody,
      Breaking the billows round the fisher’s boat!
    Child of the foam! fair mermaids clinging close
      Shall cross on thee to ocean’s end no more:
    Huge as the Southern Cape a wave arose,
      And hurled thee high upon the sandy shore.
  • Anthologia Palatina, vii, 214; "A Stranded Dolphin", as translated by A. J. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel (1922), p. 46