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IX. (‘I mourned with tears Theionöe my wife’)

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IX. (‘I mourned with tears Theionöe my wife’)

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IX. (‘I mourned with tears Theionöe my wife’)

Poet(s)

Bianor

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Translator

Hay, William Mcleager

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 37:234, 654, April 1835.

First line

I mourned with tears Theionöe my wife

Original language

Greek

Document status

Generated: The file has been automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title “Translations from the Greek.” (SP)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 11644

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “IX. (‘I mourned with tears Theionöe my wife’),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.8beta, University of Victoria, 30th June 2023, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1835/pom_11644_ix_i_mourned_with_tears.html.

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